Stow Youth Hostel (Yha)

STOW YOUTH HOSTEL (YHA), THE SQUARE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1088791
Date first listed:
25-Aug-1960
List Entry Name:
Stow Youth Hostel (Yha)
Statutory Address:
STOW YOUTH HOSTEL (YHA), THE SQUARE
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1088791
Date first listed:
25-Aug-1960
Date of most recent amendment:
29-Apr-1983
List Entry Name:
Stow Youth Hostel (Yha)
Statutory Address 1:
STOW YOUTH HOSTEL (YHA), THE SQUARE

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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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

Location

Statutory Address:
STOW YOUTH HOSTEL (YHA), THE SQUARE

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

County:
Gloucestershire
District:
Cotswold (District Authority)
Parish:
Stow-on-the-Wold
National Grid Reference:
SP 19168 25832

Details

1. 5224 THE SQUARE (east side)

Stow Youth Hostel (YHA) (Formerly listed as premises adjoining and to the north of White Hart Hotel (Youth Hostel)) SP 1925 NW 2/23 25.8.60

II GV

2. Late C18/early C19. Ashlar with Cotswold stone roof. Quoin pilasters and parapet band. Two storeys and attics, 2 windows, sashes with glazing bars in architrave surrounds, the left hand windows are paired. Eight panel door with raised and fielded panels, top 2 glazed. Small stone hood on brackets. Roof with stone verges and kneelers, 3 gabled dormers (modern casements) ashlar end stacks with weathering.

Listing NGR: SP1916825832

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Legacy System number:
126405
Legacy System:
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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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