Ye Olde Cross Public House 'dirty Bottles'
YE OLDE CROSS PUBLIC HOUSE 'DIRTY BOTTLES', 32, NARROWGATE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1041432
- Date first listed:
- 20-Feb-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Ye Olde Cross Public House 'dirty Bottles'
- Statutory Address:
- YE OLDE CROSS PUBLIC HOUSE 'DIRTY BOTTLES', 32, NARROWGATE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1041432
- Date first listed:
- 20-Feb-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 25-Aug-1977
- List Entry Name:
- Ye Olde Cross Public House 'dirty Bottles'
- Statutory Address 1:
- YE OLDE CROSS PUBLIC HOUSE 'DIRTY BOTTLES', 32, NARROWGATE
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:
- YE OLDE CROSS PUBLIC HOUSE 'DIRTY BOTTLES', 32, NARROWGATE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Alnwick
- National Grid Reference:
- NU 18552 13468
Details
1. NARROWGATE 5330 (North East Side) No 32 (Ye Olde Cross Public House "Dirty Bottles") NU 1813 SE 1/68 20.2.52. II GV 2. Right hand part of 2 windows C17; left hand part of 3 windows later with early C19 attic storey. Two storeys and attic. Painted dressed stone. The right hand part has a moulded eaves cornice, modern tiles and raking top former with a Yorkshire sash window. Two light casement windows. Stone bracketted hood over doorway. Above is a shield upside down with the de Vesci arms (a cross patonce, hence the name of the inn), probably C13. On the ground floor is an old bow window containing the dirty bottles said to have been left there in the early C19 and by local superstition kept there (hence the nickname of the inn). The left hand part has a built up gabled dormer; plate glass sashes on 1st floor and attic, a glazing bar sash window on ground floor to right and on left a modern recessed bow; a blocked doorway between them. Gable light to attic on left. Slate roof with moulded cast iron gutter.
Listing NGR: NU1856313471
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 235805
- 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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