button to main menu  Old Cumbria Gazetteer
Shepherds Inn, Melmerby
Shepherds Inn
locality:-   Melmerby
civil parish:-   Ousby (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   inn
coordinates:-   NY61533737
1Km square:-   NY6137
10Km square:-   NY63


photograph
BNT30.jpg (taken 30.5.2007)  
photograph
BNT29.jpg (taken 30.5.2007)  

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Shepherd's Inn
item:-  date stone (1789)
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"SHEPHERD'S INN, MELMERBY (AND ADJOINING STABLES AND BARN) / / THE GREEN / OUSBY / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II / 73224 / NY6154837354"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Inn, initialled and dated on door lintel I.S. F.S. 1789. Thin sandstone blocks with rusticated quoins on chamfered plinth; sill bands to both floors and moulded eaves. Graduated slate roof with stone copings, kneelers, and end chimneys. Symmetrical; 2 storeys, 3 bays. Central door in pedimented architrave has single sash to either side and 3 above, all with glazing bars in stone surrounds. Former stables adjoining south end are lower; coursed, squared rubble with quoins under graduated slate roof. Central segment-headed wagon door has C20 gabled garage entrance to left and 2 doors to right. Inn extended 2 bays into stables with 2 C20 windows in stone surrounds on each floor at extreme left."

button to lakes menu  Lakes Guides menu.