The Cat Head Inn
THE CAT HEAD INN, CAT STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1057249
- Date first listed:
- 27-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Cat Head Inn
- Statutory Address:
- THE CAT HEAD INN, CAT STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1057249
- Date first listed:
- 27-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Cat Head Inn
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE CAT HEAD INN, CAT STREET
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 CAT HEAD INN, CAT STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Chiselborough
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 46830 14796
Details
ST4614 CHISELBOROUGH CP CAT STREET (East side) 11/68 The Cat Head Inn - GV II Inn. C17 origins. Ham stone coursed rubble, ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roof with overhung gables; one brick and one stone chimney stack. Two storeys, 4 bays irregular fenestration. Hollow-chamfered mullioned windows in chamfered recesses, 2-light to upper bays 2,3 and 4, without labels, and below 2, 4 and 3-light with continuous label bays 2, 3 and 4 stepped up over a moulded cambered-arched doorway with incised spandrils bay 3; small 2-light stair window upper bay 1, apparently blank below; single storey extension on north-east gable, with 3-light mullioned window to front and 4-light plain beaded mullioned window in north gable, this latter with label: to south a 2-storey, 2-bay stable wing of later C19, under clay pantiled roof. Interior not seen. Formerly known as The New Inn.
Listing NGR: ST4683014796
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 263523
- 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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