The Grapes Hotel
THE GRAPES HOTEL, TOWN ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1072556
- Date first listed:
- 17-Apr-1967
- List Entry Name:
- The Grapes Hotel
- Statutory Address:
- THE GRAPES HOTEL, TOWN ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1072556
- Date first listed:
- 17-Apr-1967
- List Entry Name:
- The Grapes Hotel
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE GRAPES HOTEL, TOWN ROAD
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 GRAPES HOTEL, TOWN ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- Chorley (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Croston
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 48996 18494
Details
CROSTON TOWN ROAD SD 41 NE 8/93 The Grapes Hotel 17.4.67 GV II
Public house. Later C18 and early C19. Handmade brick with stone dressings and scored render, all colour-washed, roofs of slate and tile. T-plan: early C19 front block of 3 bays, with long rear wing probably late C18. Two storeys: symmetrical facade has central round-headed doorway with moulded stone surround and scrolled keystone, 2 windows at ground floor and 3 above, mostly 4-pane sashes and all with splayed stone heads. Right gable wall is buttressed, has 2 small and one square window at ground floor, another square window above, all top-hung casements with glazing bars. Rear range in 2 parts, the first one large bay with a lean-to porch in the angle, coupled square casements with small panes at ground floor and a 4-light sliding sash above, large chimney at rear gable; the second, slightly lower, 2 bays set back, has small lean-to porch in the angle, a segmental-headed door and window at ground floor, a 3-light sliding sash and 3-light casement above. Interior: some numbered doors at ground floor; open-well dog-legged staircase with open string, slender turned newels, stick balusters and ramped handrail; whole 1st floor of front is a meeting room with high ceiling of 3 pyramidal compartments (iron rings in the apexes), entered by a door with a bolted hinged flap cut in one panel; 1st floor of rear range is longitudinally partitioned, the west side stepped down and containing at the far end a small room with a prison cell built into it, this with a small square barred window and a wooden bunk inside. History: said to have been used as courthouse; and the front meeting room as a masonic hall. (No. 65 adjoins at left end).
Listing NGR: SD4899618494
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 184345
- 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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