Howard Arms Hotel
HOWARD ARMS HOTEL, FRONT STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1335533
- Date first listed:
- 16-Jan-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Howard Arms Hotel
- Statutory Address:
- HOWARD ARMS HOTEL, FRONT STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1335533
- Date first listed:
- 16-Jan-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Howard Arms Hotel
- Statutory Address 1:
- HOWARD ARMS HOTEL, FRONT STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- HOWARD ARMS HOTEL, FRONT STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Brampton
- National Grid Reference:
- NY 52989 61048
Details
NY 5261 BRAMPTON FRONT STREET BRAMPTON (South side)
15/24 Howard Arms Hotel
G.V. II
Hotel, formerly coaching inn. Late C18. Incised painted stucco, chamfered plinth, flush quoins, stone dressings, slate roof with projecting eaves, yellow brick chimney stacks. 3 storeys, 2 bays. Entrance has C20 panelled doors, with plain surround and C20 projecting wooden hood porch. Tripartite sash windows with glazing bars have painted stone surrounds: C20 louvred shutters flank each window. Above entrance is carved inn sign of bunch of grapes, probably late C18 or early C19. Listing includes the 3 storey, 3 bay extension, in yard to rear (The Snooty Fox), with arched carriage passage, C20 recessed entrance, sash windows with glazing bars and plain stone surrounds. Listing does not include the very much altered stable block, enclosing stable yard to right. See advert Cumberland Pacquet, 21 May 1793. Richard Smirke, 1778-1815, architectural draughtsman and watercolourist, (brother of Sir Robert Smirke) died here: see Gentlemans Magazine, 1815, i, p477.
Listing NGR: NY5298761040
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 77818
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Gentlemans Magazine in Gentlemans Magazine, Vol. 1, (1815), 477
Cumberland Pacquet in Cumberland Pacquet 21 May, (1793)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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