Ye Olde Packhorse Inn

Ye Olde Packhorse Inn, Pack Horse Road, Melbourne, DE73 8BZ

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1096361
Date first listed:
11-Mar-1987
List Entry Name:
Ye Olde Packhorse Inn
Statutory Address:
Ye Olde Packhorse Inn, Pack Horse Road, Melbourne, DE73 8BZ
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1096361
Date first listed:
11-Mar-1987
List Entry Name:
Ye Olde Packhorse Inn
Statutory Address 1:
Ye Olde Packhorse Inn, Pack Horse Road, Melbourne, DE73 8BZ

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
Ye Olde Packhorse Inn, Pack Horse Road, Melbourne, DE73 8BZ

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

County:
Derbyshire
District:
South Derbyshire (District Authority)
Parish:
Melbourne
National Grid Reference:
SK 38572 26159

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 28 October 2022 to amend the name and address and reformat the text to current standards

SK 32 NE
3/144

PARISH OF MELBOURNE
PACKHORSE ROAD (West Side)
Ye Olde Packhorse Inn

(Formerly listed as Pack Horse Inn)

II

Two cottages, public house at time of listing. 1727 and early C19 with C19 and C20 additions. Red brick with brick and stone dressings. Red clay tile roofs with brick coped gables to either end and to centre, plus central brick ridge stack and external gable brick stack to south. Dentilled eaves band to early C19 part to north and first floor band to early C18 part to south. Canted plan, four bays and single storey plus attics to south and two storeys to north.

East elevation has two two-light horizontal sliding glazing bar sashes to north, that to south below segment head, and an inserted C20 door below a plain overlight to south. Canted brick bay window beyond to south and a glazing bar sash and stone doorcase to north. The bay window has plain sashes below stone lintels and the northern doorcase has a chamfered jambs and 'WM 1727' inscribed on the lintel. Above there are two horizontal sliding glazing bar sashes in gabled dormers and to north there are two similar flat headed windows below the eaves.

Interior has chamfered ceiling beams.

Listing NGR: SK3857226159

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
83128
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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