Sun Inn
SUN INN, MAIN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1383989
- Date first listed:
- 16-Mar-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Sun Inn
- Statutory Address:
- SUN INN, MAIN STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1383989
- Date first listed:
- 16-Mar-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Sun Inn
- Statutory Address 1:
- SUN INN, MAIN 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:
- SUN INN, MAIN STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Dent
- National Park:
- Yorkshire Dales
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 70474 87012
Details
DENT
SD7087 MAIN STREET, Dent Town
162-1/24/195 (West side)
16/03/54 Sun Inn
GV II
Inn, now public house. Probably mid C18 (described as "newly
erected" in 1758); extended and altered. White-painted
roughly-coursed rubble with quoins, stone slate roof.
Single-depth 2-unit plan with short extension to left, large
rear wing to north half and outshuts in the angle.
EXTERIOR: 2 low storeys, 1:3 windows. The 3-window main range
has a square-headed doorway offset slightly right, a 4-pane
sash above the doorway, and two square 20-pane windows on each
floor, all with painted stone surrounds; an old square
signboard to the left at 1st floor, with a radiant smiling sun
over curved lettering "BEST ALE UNDER THE SUN", and 3-step
mounting block near the right-hand corner. The 1-window
extension to the left has one square sash on each floor (4 and
20 panes, respectively). Ridge chimney at junction, gable
chimney to right.
Rear: gabled 2-storey rear wing with corbelled chimney;
outshuts to right, with later extensions.
INTERIOR: 2 axial beams in left bay, 3 lateral beams in
right-hand bay; C18 dog-legged staircase in rear wing, with
closed string, small turned balusters, and fielded panelling.
Listing NGR: SD7047487012
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 484421
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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