Lower Lode Hotel

LOWER LODE HOTEL

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1091466
Date first listed:
12-Aug-1985
List Entry Name:
Lower Lode Hotel
Statutory Address:
LOWER LODE HOTEL
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Date:
2001-06-27
Reference:
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1091466
Date first listed:
12-Aug-1985
List Entry Name:
Lower Lode Hotel
Statutory Address 1:
LOWER LODE HOTEL

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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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Location

Statutory Address:
LOWER LODE HOTEL

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

County:
Gloucestershire
District:
Tewkesbury (District Authority)
Parish:
Forthampton
National Grid Reference:
SO 87878 31807

Details

SO 83 SE FORTHAMPTON -

2/33 Lower Lode hotel II

Inn. C18 and C20. Red brick and C20 timber framing, red tile roof, brick stacks. Rectangular main body with outbuildings on right gable end, stables (now partly converted) set back on left linked to main body via C20 extension with timber-framed first floor. 2-storey main body with symmetrical 3-windowed facade. Two 2-storey projecting canted bays lit by 12-pane sashes with horns. Central C20 three-panelled door with fanlight flanked by a single light and 2-light casement both with horizontal glazing bars. Twelve-pane sash in flush surround with lugs at each corner above. Two-storey stable block, built in 2 phases. Ground floor lit by five 2-light casements with horizontal glazng bars, set in segmental-headed surrounds. Six-light casement to first floor. Wooden plaque upper left advertising a / One guinea reward for persons giving information towards the conviction of any offenders who destroy or damage any gate, stile, rails or fences or commit any tresspass on the Forthampton and Swinley Estate /. Upper floor of C20 infill between stables and main body timber- framed with two gabled dormers, ground floor glazed, with central part-glazed door. Brick dentil decoration at eaves of main body and stables. Projecting gable-end stacks to main body, blind round-headed recess with keystone and imposts towards top of left- hand chimney. Interior not inspected.

Listing NGR: SO8787831807

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Legacy System number:
134153
Legacy System:
LBS

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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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