Description

SD99NW MUKER

14/10001 Muker Literary Institute and attached wail and railings

- II

Literary institute. 1867. Coursed rubble stone with ashlar dressings and slate roof plus coped gables with kneelers and a single gable stack. Quoins and raised band. 2 storey, with lower room below entered from south, and hall above entered from west. West front has projecting porch to upper hall reached up a flight of 6 steps, porch has moulded round arched doorway with keystone and chamfered jambs with bands, plus 4-panel door. Above a flat hood with plain decorative top. The west front is topped with a curved Dutch gable with kneelers and ball finial. South front, 2 storey, 3 windows, with to left a round headed doorway with 4-panel door and plain fanlight in a plain ashlar surround with keystone and moulded impost. To the right 2 round headed glazing bar sashes with similar surrounds and keystones. Above 3 pairs ofplain sashes in ashlar surrounds with shouldered heads. Attached to the south west corner a stone retaining wall topped with spearhead railings.

Listing NGR: SD9099997876

External Links

• Wikidata Q26499253

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Recommended Books

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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)