Former Romney House Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 April 1969. House, former hotel.

Former Romney House Hotel

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Westmorland and Furness
Country
England
Date first listed
14 April 1969
Type
House, former hotel
Source
Historic England listing

Description

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 16 September 2025 to amend the name and address and description due to a change in building use, and reformat the text to current standards

SD 59 SW 2/121

KENDAL MILNTHORPE ROAD (west side) No 26, Romney House Former Romney House Hotel

(Formerly listed as No 26 (Romney House Hotel) MILNTHORPE ROAD)

14-4-69

II House, hotel at time of listing; early/mid C18. Coursed rubble, rendered to front, with rusticated corner pilasters on plinth; dentilled eaves cornice. Graduated slate roof with stone end chimneys. Three storeys, three bays. Part-glazed door and rectangular fanlight in surround with cornice carried on tapered pilasters. Narrow sash to right and two sashes to left; three sashes to each floor above. Sign hangs from wrought-iron bracket projecting above door. Late C19 painted, circular, cast-iron plaque (between ground and first floors) carries an inscription in raised sans serif lettering: HERE LIVED FOR A TIME AND DIED GEORGE ROMNEY PORTRAIT PAINTER BORN AT DALTON IN FURNESS 1734 DIED 1802.

Listing NGR: SD5162691840

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