FALCON HOTEL ANNEXE JT BACKUS MURRAY

FALCON HOTEL ANNEXE, HIGH STREET EAST

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

Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1073181
Date first listed:: 10-Nov-1955
List Entry Name:: FALCON HOTEL ANNEXE JT BACKUS MURRAY
Statutory Address:: FALCON HOTEL ANNEXE, HIGH STREET EAST

The Missing Pieces Project

Share your view of unique places.

Add your contribution

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:: 2002-05-12
Reference:: IOE01/06674/34
Rights:: © Mr Peter Tomalin. 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:: 1073181
Date first listed:: 10-Nov-1955
Date of most recent amendment:: 15-Oct-1984
List Entry Name:: FALCON HOTEL ANNEXE JT BACKUS MURRAY
Statutory Address 1:: FALCON HOTEL ANNEXE, HIGH STREET EAST
Statutory Address 2:: JT BACKUS, 7, HIGH STREET EAST
Statutory Address 3:: MURRAY, 5, HIGH STREET EAST

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:: FALCON HOTEL ANNEXE, HIGH STREET EAST
Statutory Address:: JT BACKUS, 7, HIGH STREET EAST
Statutory Address:: MURRAY, 5, HIGH STREET EAST

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

District:: Rutland (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Uppingham
National Grid Reference:: SP 86645 99694

Details

SP 8699-8799 UPPINGHAM HIGH STREET EAST 4/16 (north side)

10.11.55 Nos 5 (Murray) and 7 (J T Backus) and Falcon Hotel Annexe (previously listed as premises next west of Falcon Hotel) GV II*

House and cottage, now part of hotel, incorporating shops. Late C16/early C17 with C18 street front heightened C19. Block to street with wing and cottage to rear. Block to street of ironstone ashlar with some paler stone dressings, Welsh slate roof, coped gables and stone end stacks. Three storeys. Ground floor has 2 C20 shop fronts. First floor has 5 6/6 sash windows with exposed moulded wood sashboxes within raised architraves with keystones. Raised band above. Second floor has 3 3/6 sash windows in similar architraves of ironstone. Wing to rear of coursed rubble with C20 concrete tile roof, coped gables and stone end stack with brick shaft. Two storeys. Ovolo-moulded stone mullioned windows. To right is blocked 4-light window with cornice over, doorway and small C20 addition to ground floor, and a 2-light and a 3-light window above. Cottage to north of coursed rubble with Welsh slate roof, coped gable and stone stack with brick shaft. One and a half storeys. Central 4-centred arched doorway with 2-light ovolo moulded stone mullioned window to left and similar window of 3 lights to right, next to projecting cupboard with Collyweston stone slate roof. Two 2-light gabled dormers. Interior: first floor room running full width of street front (probably originally 2 rooms) with late C16/early C17 square panelling, some reset, and decorative scroll-work frieze. West end of room has 4-centred-arched stone fireplace and east end has similar fireplace but with cornice, which breaks forward in 3 places. First floor room in rear wing also has 4-centred arched stone fireplace. Ground floor room of rear wing has similar panelling to first floor front room, but including a fluted pilaster and a massive fireplace with moulded wooden bressummer and stone jambs.

Listing NGR: SP8664599694

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 186753
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.