TOWER BANK ARMS PUBLIC HOUSE

TOWER BANK ARMS PUBLIC HOUSE, B5285, LA22 0LF

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1335737
Date first listed:: 22-Sep-1987
List Entry Name:: TOWER BANK ARMS PUBLIC HOUSE
Statutory Address:: TOWER BANK ARMS PUBLIC HOUSE, B5285, LA22 0LF

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Date:: 2007-10-04
Reference:: IOE01/16780/23
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1335737
Date first listed:: 22-Sep-1987
List Entry Name:: TOWER BANK ARMS PUBLIC HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: TOWER BANK ARMS PUBLIC HOUSE, B5285, LA22 0LF

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: TOWER BANK ARMS PUBLIC HOUSE, B5285, LA22 0LF

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Claife
National Park:: LAKE DISTRICT
National Grid Reference:: SD 37042 95575

Details

SD 39 NE, 6/48

CLAIFE, B5285 (South side), Tower Bank Arms Public House

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Public House. Probably C18 or early C19. Roughcast stone with slate roof. Two storeys, three bays, the 1st bay canted back, possibly later. Ground floor has bay window with hipped roof and paired sashes with horns to 1st bay; 2nd and 3rd bays have sashed windows, that to 2nd bay with vertical glazing bars, that to 3rd bay with glazing bars. 1st floor has sashed window with glazing bars to 1st bay, and small-paned casements to 2nd and 3rd bays. Entrance between 2nd and 3rd bays has timber gabled porch with clock to gable. Gable-end stacks. Left return has gabled 2-bay range to rear, with lean-to outshut projecting as single-pitch wing; gabled porch. Right return has lean-to outshut. Rear is low, built into hillside below Hill Top (q.v.).

The building was illustrated by Beatrix Potter in 'The Tale of Jemima Puddleduck' (1908), p.58, a reproduction of which is on inn sign to left return.

Listing NGR: SD3704295575

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Legacy System number:: 76723
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Potter, B, The Tale of Jemima Puddleduck, (1908), 58

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.