The County Bar The Cumbrian Hotel (Part)

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NY4055NW BOTCHERGATE 671-1/12/53 (West side) Nos.2, 4 AND 6 The County Bar

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Formerly known as: The County Hotel BOTCHERGATE. Includes: The Cumbrian Hotel (part) COURT SQUARE. Also known as: Fletchers BOTCHERGATE. Hotel extension and hall, over shop and bar, originally forming part of The Cumbrian Hotel in Court Square. 1866-8 by Cory and Ferguson. Painted brick with rusticated pilastered quoins, string courses and modillioned brick eaves cornice. Slate roof (not visible from the street) with gabled dormers; original painted brick end and ridge chimney stacks. 3 storeys and attic, 3 bays. Central C20 doors and fanlight in paired colonnette surround under glazed canopy. Flanking C20 shop windows within original shop openings under signboards with ball finials. Arcade of small paired casements above in deep brick recesses with modillions; pair above entrance within pilasters carried up from doorway. Paired sash windows above have flattened and rounded heads, those on first floor with patterned aprons and those on second floor with central colonnette, all in brick reveals. Carved stone cross between arcade windows marks the site of the former freelidge stone showing the city boundary. The stone had originally been at pavement level. INTERIOR has been extensively altered. Plans for this are in Cumbria County Record Office, CA/E4/766 and 773, dated 22 February 1866. Forms an integral part of the ballroom of The Cumbrian Hotel (qv) as this building extends over it.

Listing NGR: NY4030155578