Sun Inn is a Grade II listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 March 1954. Inn. 1 related planning application.
Sun Inn
- WRENN ID
- rooted-threshold-bittern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Yorkshire Dales National Park
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 March 1954
- Type
- Inn
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
DENT
SD7087 MAIN STREET, Dent Town 162-1/24/195 (West side) 16/03/54 Sun Inn
GV II
Inn, now public house. Probably mid C18 (described as "newly erected" in 1758); extended and altered. White-painted roughly-coursed rubble with quoins, stone slate roof. Single-depth 2-unit plan with short extension to left, large rear wing to north half and outshuts in the angle. EXTERIOR: 2 low storeys, 1:3 windows. The 3-window main range has a square-headed doorway offset slightly right, a 4-pane sash above the doorway, and two square 20-pane windows on each floor, all with painted stone surrounds; an old square signboard to the left at 1st floor, with a radiant smiling sun over curved lettering "BEST ALE UNDER THE SUN", and 3-step mounting block near the right-hand corner. The 1-window extension to the left has one square sash on each floor (4 and 20 panes, respectively). Ridge chimney at junction, gable chimney to right. Rear: gabled 2-storey rear wing with corbelled chimney; outshuts to right, with later extensions. INTERIOR: 2 axial beams in left bay, 3 lateral beams in right-hand bay; C18 dog-legged staircase in rear wing, with closed string, small turned balusters, and fielded panelling.
Listing NGR: SD7047487012
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