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Latitude: 54.5216 / 54°31'17"N
Longitude: -2.671 / 2°40'15"W
OS Eastings: 356665
OS Northings: 514244
OS Grid: NY566142
Mapcode National: GBR 9JS4.JW
Mapcode Global: WH81Y.YM80
Plus Code: 9C6VG8CH+MJ
Entry Name: Greyhound Hotel with Milestone and Mounting Block
Listing Date: 6 February 1968
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1159149
English Heritage Legacy ID: 74171
ID on this website: 101159149
Location: Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, CA10
County: Cumbria
District: Eden
Civil Parish: Shap
Built-Up Area: Shap
Traditional County: Westmorland
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cumbria
Church of England Parish: Shap with Swindale St Michael
Church of England Diocese: Carlisle
Tagged with: Hotel Coaching inn
SHAP MAIN STREET
NY 5614/5 (East side), Shap
27/156 Greyhound Hotel with
milestone & mounting
6.2.68 block
GV II
Coaching Inn, now hotel. Various datestones recorded: Kitchen fireplace
inscribed August the 27 1680 with initials R. & W.A.; bar fireplace 1696 with
initials A.W.; on panel over carriage arch 1703 with initials A.W. & W.W. &
bas-relief of a greyhound. Later additions and alterations. Initials are those
of Whinfell family whose crest was a greyhound. Wet-dashed rubble on plinth.
Graduated slate roof with stone ridge. 2 storeys, 7 bays overall; wing (1680)
projects to rear. 4-bay 1696 addition: Panelled door in open,flat-roofed
porch with cast-iron columns; recumbent sculpture of greyhound on roof probably
by Thomas Bland of Reagill. 2 tripartite sashes to each floor on left and one
above. Symmetrical 1703 extension to right: Central segment-headed carriage
arch now part-blocked with fixed window; sash to each floor on either side. All
windows with glazing bars in stone surrounds. Rendered mid and end chimneys.
Milestone with shaped head, to right of entrance, is probably mid C18 for
Turnpike. Painted black with lettering picked out in white: Kendal X6/Penrith
Xl/Miles (sic). Stone mounting block to right of former carriage arch.
Cottages adjoining south return not of special interest.
Listing NGR: NY5666514244
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