Listing Text

SD 82 48 GISBURN MAIN STREET (North Side)

12/67 Ribblesdale Arms Hotel
16-11-1954
GV II

Public house, 1635, altered mid C19th. Pebbledashed rubble with stone
slate roof and brick chimney caps. 3 storeys, with 2 bays to the left
and one bay to the right of a 3-storey gabled porch. The ground and
1st floor windows are sashed with no glazing bars in plain stone surrounds
with square mullions, of 2 lights to the left of the porch and tripartite
to the right. The 2nd floor windows are mullioned, double-chamfered with
three stepped lights and hoods. The 2nd floor porch window is similar.
The 1st floor of the porch has a blank moulded stone surround with moulded
string course above and below. Each return wall has a window of C19th type
with chamfered stone surround, the left-hand one being of 2 lights with
mullion. The door has a chamfered stone surround. Above, the upper stories
oversail on a moulded string. Above the string is a plaque, its inscription
now picked out in white paint: 'THIS HOUSE WAS BUILDED IN ANNO DOMINI 1635
AT THE COSTS AND CHARGS OF THOMAS LISTER. £855 COSTEd'. Chimneys on gables
and on each side of central bay.

Listing NGR: SD8284048828