THE CROSS GATES HOTEL

THE CROSS GATES HOTEL, A458

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1175723
Date first listed:: 18-Mar-1986
List Entry Name:: THE CROSS GATES HOTEL
Statutory Address:: THE CROSS GATES HOTEL, A458

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1175723
Date first listed:: 18-Mar-1986
List Entry Name:: THE CROSS GATES HOTEL
Statutory Address 1:: THE CROSS GATES HOTEL, A458

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: THE CROSS GATES HOTEL, A458

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District:: Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Ford
National Grid Reference:: SJ4093513204

Details

SJ 4013-4113 FORD C.P. A 458, Ford (north-west side) 13/53 The Cross Gates Hotel -

- II

Inn. Dated 1724, built for Thomas Wilde, possibly incorporating an earlier core. Painted brick; hipped C20 machine tile roof. L-plan. 2 storeys and attic. East front: rendered plinth, plat bands above ground- and first-floor windows, parapeted gable end at rear, and 5 gabled dormers with 2-light wooden casements; brick ridge stack off-centre to right and brick ridge stack and integral brick end stack to rear wing at left. 4-window front; C19 two- and 3-light wooden mullioned and transomed segmental-headed casements; half-glazed door with 2 lower flush panels between first and second windows from left with 2-part rectangular overlight and early C19 doorcase with panelled pilasters, and tall shaped brackets supporting hood; segmental- headed half-glazed door to right with 2-part rectangular overlight. Blocked doorway between second and third windows from right. Moulded datestone beteween first and second first-floor windows from left: W T M 1724 2 large probably C19 sign boards flanking left-hand ground-floor windows. The right-hand part seems to have been built at a slightly different date from the rest (see break in plat bands). Probably C19 painted rubble lean-to addition to right with large 3 light window to front. Left-hand return front: windows; gabled dormers, first-floor cross-casements, and ground-floor windows altered with probably late C19 canted bays; central ground floor sign board. One-storey late C19 addition to left with integral brick end stack and 3-light segmental-headed casement to front. 2 gabled wings in angle at rear. Interior not inspected. An inn on this site is first mentioned in 1643 when it was owned by the Morris family. Thomas Wilde bought it in 1712 and is said to have enlarged it by incorporating it with a nearby house at right angles to the north and producing the present plan. V.C.H., Vol. VIII, p.227.

Listing NGR: SJ4093513204

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Legacy System number:: 258958
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Shropshire, (1908), 227

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.