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Shakespeare, Kendal
Shakespears Inn
Street:-   Highgate
civil parish:-   Kendal (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   inn
coordinates:-   SD51469253
1Km square:-   SD5192
10Km square:-   SD59
references:-   Listed Buildings 2010


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BYS68.jpg  Innsign, William Shakespeare.
(taken 7.7.2013)  
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BYS67.jpg (taken 7.7.2013)  

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Shakespears Inn
item:-  date stone (1830)
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"SHAKESPEARS INN / 78 / HIGHGATE / KENDAL / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 75397 / SD5146292532"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Public House incorporating shop. Dated 1830, with initials T.S. (for Thomas Simpson), on carriage arch keystone; by John Richardson. Wet-dashed rubble on hammer-dressed plinth; 1st floor sill band. Graduated slate roof; rendered end chimneys. 3 storeys, 3 bays; 2-bay basement shop. Symmetrical corniced wooden shop front has steps down to 2 part-glazed doors (one now used as window) with window to each end. Two 16-pane sashes above; carriage arch on left has moulded imposts and projecting keystone to elliptical head. C20 entrance to Inn is up steps on north side in rear passage. 3 sashes with glazing bars to each upper floor (16-pane to 1st floor)."

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