BEAR COTTAGES THE BEAR INN

BEAR COTTAGES, 1-3, CHURCH LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1022788
Date first listed:: 24-Jul-1985
List Entry Name:: BEAR COTTAGES THE BEAR INN
Statutory Address:: BEAR COTTAGES, 1-3, CHURCH LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1022788
Date first listed:: 24-Jul-1985
List Entry Name:: BEAR COTTAGES THE BEAR INN
Statutory Address 1:: BEAR COTTAGES, 1-3, CHURCH LANE
Statutory Address 2:: BEAR COTTAGES, 1-3, HIGH STREET
Statutory Address 3:: THE BEAR INN, HIGH STREET

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

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:: BEAR COTTAGES, 1-3, CHURCH LANE
Statutory Address:: BEAR COTTAGES, 1-3, HIGH STREET
Statutory Address:: THE BEAR INN, HIGH STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Box
National Grid Reference:: ST 82391 68468

Details

ST 8268 BOX HIGH STREET (north side)

3/163 The Bear Inn and Nos 1 to 3 (consec) Bear Cottages

GV II

Inn, early C19 attached to range of late C17 or early C18 cottages. Inn, facing High St, ashlar with slate low-pitched hipped roof. Two storeys, 3-window range, the right side canted forward. Raised plinth, floor band, moulded cornice and parapet. Three first floor 12-pane sashes, ground floor 16-pane sash, double doors in projecting Roman Doric ashlar porch, 2 columns and pilaster responds, and, to right, ashlar canted bay with 12-pane front window and 8-pane side window. Twelve-pane sash to each floor of west end wall. Bear Cottages, to rear, are at a lower level, facing east. Rubble stone with stone tiled roof, axial ridge stack and corner stack on wall-face. Coped north gable. Two and a half storeys with 2 coped dormer gables, each with 2-light recessed ovolo-moulded mullion window and hoodmould. Four-window range to first floor of sash windows in bead-moulded surrounds, a pair to left, single to centre, narrow single with thick glazing bars and then large single window to right. Ground floor, from left, a row of mullion windows 2-3-2 lights with dripstone, 6-panel door to No 1 in chamfered doorcase, a pair of 12-pane sashes, and a 6-panel door to No 2 in timber porch. North end wall has 2-light recessed cyma-moulded attic mullion window and bead-moulded ground floor single light. Rear wing with coped west gable and paired upper 12- pane sashes. Attached is No 3, a later extension with coped west gable and west end stack, 2 upper 12-pane sashes, ground floor casement pair and dooor in chamfered surround. C20 2-storey extension beyond.

Listing NGR: ST8232968492

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Legacy System number:: 317026
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.