Tower Bank Arms Public House
TOWER BANK ARMS PUBLIC HOUSE, B5285, LA22 0LF
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1335737
- Date first listed:
- 22-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Tower Bank Arms Public House
- Statutory Address:
- 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-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Tower Bank Arms Public House
- Statutory Address 1:
- TOWER BANK ARMS PUBLIC HOUSE, B5285, LA22 0LF
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:
- 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
GV
II
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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 76723
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Potter, B, The Tale of Jemima Puddleduck, (1908), 58
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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