The Old Inn

THE OLD INN, 16, MAIN STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1075140
Date first listed:
03-Aug-1979
List Entry Name:
The Old Inn
Statutory Address:
THE OLD INN, 16, MAIN STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1075140
Date first listed:
03-Aug-1979
Date of most recent amendment:
26-Feb-1992
List Entry Name:
The Old Inn
Statutory Address 1:
THE OLD INN, 16, MAIN 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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
THE OLD INN, 16, MAIN STREET

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

County:
Leicestershire
District:
Melton (District Authority)
Parish:
Ab Kettleby
National Grid Reference:
SK7357723598

Details

In the entry for

SK 7323
23/245
3.8.79

AB KETTLEBY
CHURCH LANE
(West Side)
HOLWELL
The Old Inn

II
GV

The address shall be amended read

SK 7323
23/245
3.8.79

AB KETTLEBY
CHURCH LANE
(West Side)
HOLWELL
The Old Inn

GV
II

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SK 7323
23/245
3.8.79

AB KETTLEBY
CHURCH LANE
(West Side)
HOLWELL
The Old Inn

II
GV

Cottage, formerly public house. C18 with older origins, altered C19 and
C20. Coursed ironstone rubble, C20 pantile roof, brick end stacks. 2-unit
plan. 2-storey, 1-window range. C20 part-glazed plank door to left of
centre in C20 gabled timber porch. 2-light C20 casement window to ground
floor left with segmental-arched brick head, 3-light casements to ground and
1st floors right, that to ground floor with cemented segmental-arched brick
head, that to first with wood lintel. Brick lean-to extension to left, C20
single storey extension to right.
Interior has chamfered spine hems, old quarry tile floors and brick-vaulted
cellar at semi- basement level to rear of roam to ground floor left.
Earliest title deed 1660 in which the property is already referred to as an
inn. It remained a public house until recently, the King William IV.
Included for group value.

Listing NGR: SK7357723598

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
189945
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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