BOAR'S HEAD INN

BOAR'S HEAD INN, WILLOW STREET

Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places

Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1054285
Date first listed:: 15-May-1986
List Entry Name:: BOAR'S HEAD INN
Statutory Address:: BOAR'S HEAD INN, WILLOW STREET

User submitted image — Uploaded by Selwyn Ray This photo may not represent the current condition of the site
View all

Location

Location of this list entry and nearby places that are also listed. Use our map search to find more listed places.

There is a problem

Use of this mapping is subject to terms and conditions.

This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale.

What is the National Heritage List for England?

The National Heritage List for England is a unique register of our country's most significant historic buildings and sites. The places on the list are protected by law and most are not open to the public.

The list includes:

🏠 Buildings
🏰 Scheduled monuments
🌳 Parks and gardens
⚔️ Battlefields
⚓ Shipwrecks

Find out more about listing

Images of England Project

To view this image please use Firefox, Chrome, Safari, or Edge.

Archive image, may not represent current condition of site.

Date:: 2002-09-01
Reference:: IOE01/08116/27
Rights:: © Mr David Wagg. Source: Historic England Archive

Historic England Archive

Search over 1 million photographs and drawings from the 1850s to the present day using our images archive.

Find Photos

Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1054285
Date first listed:: 15-May-1986
List Entry Name:: BOAR'S HEAD INN
Statutory Address 1:: BOAR'S HEAD INN, WILLOW 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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: BOAR'S HEAD INN, WILLOW STREET

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

District:: Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Oswestry
National Grid Reference:: SJ 28967 29622

Details

SJ 2829 NE OSWESTRY C.P. WILLOW STREET (south-west side) 13/123 Boar's Head Inn -

GV II

Inn. Mid-C19 re-fronting and heightening of earlier building with later additions and alterations. Rendered timber frame and brick, slate roof with red brick ridge stack to left and internal end stack to right. Original house probably of 3 reined bays to front with long range at right-angles to rear; front re-faced in C18 and heightened and re-modelled in mid-C19. 3 storeys, corbelled eaves cornice; three 4-paned sashes in moulded surrounds with moulded cill band (actually eaves cornice of C18 house with stone kneelers to left and right) to second floor; twin double-paned sash also in moulded surround to first floor on right; inn front to right has Gothic leaf carving to spandrels of windows and double 4-panel doors with wide rectangular overlight; wide, high passageway with spur stones to left. Long low 2-storey range to rear on right, rendered over timber frame and with slate roof; small gable to left has Venetian window with late C19 stained glass, tall red brick ridge stack to right of centre and large tapering external stack to left. Interior: not inspected but likely to be of interest.

Listing NGR: SJ2895929616

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 255597
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.