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Kings Arms, Kirkby Stephen
Kings Arms
locality:-   Kirkby Stephen
civil parish:-   Kirkby Stephen (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   inn
coordinates:-   NY774086 (?) 
1Km square:-   NY7708
10Km square:-   NY70


photograph
BMH52.jpg  Innsign; king on horseback with flag and shield with coat of arms.
(taken 30.6.2006)  
photograph
BMH51.jpg (taken 30.6.2006)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 23 15) 
placename:-  Kings Arms Inn, The
source data:-   Maps, County Series maps of Great Britain, scales 6 and 25 inches to 1 mile, published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, from about 1863 to 1948.

evidence:-   descriptive text:- Wallis 1810
placename:-  King's Arms
source data:-   Map, Westmoreland, scale about 19 miles to 1 inch, and Cumberland, scale about 16 miles to 1 inch, by James Wallis, 77 Berwick Street, Soho, London, 1810; published 1810-36.
"PRINCIPAL INNS, RECOMMENDED TO TRAVELLERS AND FAMILIES."
"Kirkby Stephen: Black Bull, King's Arms, Pack Horse."

evidence:-   old advertisement:- Braithwaite 1922
placename:-  Kings Arms Hotel
source data:-   Advertisement, for Z McClelland, Kings Arms Hotel, Kirkby Stephen, Westmorland, published by J W Braithwaite and Sons, Kirkby Stephen, Westmorland, 1922.
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BT1A11.jpg
Included in a guide book, Kirkby Stephen, 4th edn 1922. 
item:-  private collection : 220.23
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  King's Arms Hotel
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"KING'S ARMS HOTEL / / MARKET STREET / KIRKBY STEPHEN / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II / 72992 / NY7754008688"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Hotel, late C18/early C19 with later alterations. Rendered rubble with chamfered quoins to south end. Graduated slate roof, hipped to south, with stone chimney to north end. 3 storeys, 6 bays. 3 sashes with glazing bars to right of panelled door with rectangular fanlight; single bow window with glazing bars, and single 16-paned sash to left. Tuscan porch to door carries 2 storey projecting bay window. 3 sashes with glazing bars to each upper floor; all sashes have stone surrounds. Large painted inn sign fastened to middle of upper wall. Pavement gratings to cellarage. Internally, panelled doors in reeded doorcases survive throughout; staircase has squared wooden ballusters on cut string with scrolled tread-ends. Corinthian cornice to landing where a small saucer-dome with diagonal ribs is carried on thin fluted colums (said to be remains of C18 powder closet)."

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