Greyhound Hotel With Milestone And Mounting Block

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