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Lowther Castle Inn, Hackthorpe
locality:-   Hackthorpe
civil parish:-   Lowther (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   inn
coordinates:-   NY54302314
1Km square:-   NY5423
10Km square:-   NY52


photograph
BUO44.jpg  Innsign - Lowther Castle.
(taken 13.5.2011)  
photograph
BUO43.jpg (taken 13.5.2011)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 8 9) 
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:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Lowther Castle Inn
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"LOWTHER CASTLE INN AND FORMER STABLES / / / LOWTHER / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II / 74338 / NY5430123145"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Public house and former stables. Left part dated 1717, late C18 stables. Painted incised stucco walls, under partly hipped graduated greenslate roof with incised stucco chimney stacks. Stables have painted rendered walls, under graduated greenslate roof with roughcast chimney stacks. 2 storeys, 4 bays with left set-back single-bay extension and right higher 2-storey, 3-bay stables. Off-centre C20 door in painted stone suround with dated lintel, flanked by canted bay windows with glazing bars. Sash windows with glazing bars in painted stone surrounds. Left C20 door up steps, in plain opening, and left canted bay window. Extension has further door and sash windows in painted stone surrounds. Stables have plank doors under sash windows with glazing bars. Right domestic part has C20 door and windows in painted stone surrounds."

notes:-  
The justices for West Ward used to sit here on alternate Mondays. One of the bars is called the Court Lounge to mark this. Since 1963 they sit in Shap.

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