WILLIAM COBBETT PUBLIC HOUSE

WILLIAM COBBETT PUBLIC HOUSE, 4, BRIDGE SQUARE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1044674
Date first listed:: 26-Apr-1950
List Entry Name:: WILLIAM COBBETT PUBLIC HOUSE
Statutory Address:: WILLIAM COBBETT PUBLIC HOUSE, 4, BRIDGE SQUARE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1044674
Date first listed:: 26-Apr-1950
Date of most recent amendment:: 29-Dec-1972
List Entry Name:: WILLIAM COBBETT PUBLIC HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: WILLIAM COBBETT PUBLIC HOUSE, 4, BRIDGE SQUARE

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:: WILLIAM COBBETT PUBLIC HOUSE, 4, BRIDGE SQUARE

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

County:: Surrey
District:: Waverley (District Authority)
Parish:: Farnham
National Grid Reference:: SU 84148 46523

Details

SU 8446 NW 6/120 SU 8446 7/120 1099 26.4.50.

BRIDGE SQUARE (South East Side) No 4 (William Cobbett Public House)

(Formerly listed as The Jolly Farmers and Bridge Stores, Firgrove Hill)

GV II*

The birthplace of William Cobbett. C17, 2 storey. Red brick on projecting plinth. String at 1st floor level. Wood band at eaves and early C19 cut board caves pelmet. Old tile roof. Chimney to left hand, and stooped chimney to right hand of front in angle formed by projecting gabled wing of timber frame with plaster infilling (formerly Bridge Stores), old tile roof. Main front has 5 2-light leaded casements with early Cl9 lights of long diamond pattern. 2 5-light casements (originally probably 4 windows of 2 lights each and now joined up) and central half-glazed double doors under cantilevered flat hood. The right hand wing has a small central attic casement. 1 casement on 1st floor. On ground floor, 3 small 2-light casement windows with frosted glass panes. Note: Illustrated "Country Life", July 3rd 1942.

The listed buildings in Bridge Square, Firgrove Hill (West Side), Red Lion Lane (North West Side) and Nos 57 and 59 Abbey Street, form a group.

Listing NGR: SU8415546523

Legacy

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Legacy System number:: 290823
Legacy System:: LBS

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'Country Life' in 3 July, (1942)

Legal

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