The Green Dragon Public House
THE GREEN DRAGON PUBLIC HOUSE, THE GREEN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1023782
- Date first listed:
- 28-Mar-1985
- List Entry Name:
- The Green Dragon Public House
- Statutory Address:
- THE GREEN DRAGON PUBLIC HOUSE, THE GREEN
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- Reference:
- IOE01/08052/19
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1023782
- Date first listed:
- 28-Mar-1985
- List Entry Name:
- The Green Dragon Public House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE GREEN DRAGON PUBLIC HOUSE, THE GREEN
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- THE GREEN DRAGON PUBLIC HOUSE, THE GREEN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Alderbury
- National Grid Reference:
- SU1823027445
Details
SU 12 NE
5/9
ALDERBURY
THE GREEN
(west side)
The Green Dragon Public House
II
House, now public house. C15 hall house with cross wing added in
mid-C16. Plastered timber-framing, tiled roof with brick stacks.
4-bay hall house had 2-bay unheated lower end and 2-bay open hall,
jettied cross wing of 2 bays added to right. 2 storeys, 4 windows.
Beaded door case to left of centre has gabled pediment, windows to
right are 2 C19 3-light mullioned and transomed casements, to left
of door is C19 casement. First floor of main range has 3 casements
in timber-framing with tension braces, jettied first floor of cross
wing has one 3-light casement. Right return of cross wing has 2-
light and 3-light casements. To left is weather boarded outshut,
to rear is tiled roofed outshut and C19 extension.
Interior: Hall has inserted floor and fireplace of mid-C16,
finely moulded principal intersecting ceiling beams. Roof was
recorded by R.C.H.M.; blackened over former open hall, arch-braced
roof with post cappings, tension braces to walls and wind braces to
1st tier of purlins. A fine Late Gothic carved stone fireplace
from Ivychurch (q.v.) was removed from the hall and sent to
America in 1930s, a Buckler print of 1806 of this feature hangs in
the lounge bar of the pub. This inn featured in Dickens' Martin
Chuzzlewit as The Blue Dragon.
(Unpublished records of R.C.H.M. (England), Salisbury).
Listing NGR: SU1823027445
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 319388
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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