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Latitude: 53.5538 / 53°33'13"N
Longitude: -1.4815 / 1°28'53"W
OS Eastings: 434449
OS Northings: 406481
OS Grid: SE344064
Mapcode National: GBR LW3B.2S
Mapcode Global: WHDCQ.6XSY
Plus Code: 9C5WHG39+GC
Entry Name: The White Bear
Listing Date: 13 January 1986
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1151142
English Heritage Legacy ID: 333695
ID on this website: 101151142
Location: Barnsley, South Yorkshire, S70
County: Barnsley
Electoral Ward/Division: Central
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Barnsley
Traditional County: Yorkshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): South Yorkshire
Church of England Parish: Barnsley St Mary
Church of England Diocese: Leeds
Tagged with: Hotel
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BARNSLEY
Barnsley
CHURCH STREET (east side)
No 11 (The White Bear)
(Formerly listed as The Royal Hotel)
GV
II
Hotel. Late C18, probably re-roofed mid C19, main doorway probably early C20. Painted, dressed stone. Welsh slate roof. Three storeys, seven-bay near-symmetrical facade. Raised ashlar quoins. Wide central doorway with round-arched head and splayed jambs in a single cyma moulding. To far left is a part-blocked carriage entrance with elliptical head with alternately extended voussoirs. All windows are in plain raised surrounds, those to ground-floor right being c1975 replacements. First-floor sill band, second-floor sill and lintel bands. Plain sashes to first and second floors. Second-floor windows slightly shorter. Moulded stone brackets to gutter. Gable copings. Three later brick stacks.
Rear: projecting wing with similar sash windows, hipped roof and tiled ground-floor addition.
Formerly called the White Bear Public House and renamed after Princess Victoria changed horses here while travelling between Harewood and Wentworth Woodhouse in 1835.
Listing NGR: SE3444906481
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