The Punch Bowl is a historic pub in Burton in Lonsdale, a village in North Yorkshire, in England. The building was constructed as a

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in the 18th century, and extended in the 19th century. In the early 20th century, its stables were converted, to enlarge the public areas. As the village grew, with a pottery industry, it had at its peak 13 pubs, but with the decline of the industry, they closed, leaving only the Punch Bowl. The building was

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in 1958 and altered in the 1970s. In 2014, Thwaites Brewery sold the pub, at which time it was listed as an

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. The pub became a free house, but was again put up for sale in 2024, with an asking price of £315,000. A group of villagers formed an organisation to explore bringing it into community ownership. The two-storey pub is built of limewashed stone, with painted stone dressings, and a

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roof. The original part has three

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, a central doorway with a moulded hood, and mullioned windows containing casements and fixed lights. In the 19th-century extension, to the left, are a doorway and two windows.

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Bolton in Lonsdale Community Inn
{{DEFAULTSORT:Punch Bowl, The, Burton in Lonsdale Burton in Lonsdale Grade II listed pubs in North Yorkshire

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