The Crown and Sceptre
THE CROWN AND SCEPTRE, FORE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1104941
- Date first listed:
- 18-Dec-1989
- List Entry Name:
- The Crown and Sceptre
- Statutory Address:
- THE CROWN AND SCEPTRE, FORE STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1104941
- Date first listed:
- 18-Dec-1989
- List Entry Name:
- The Crown and Sceptre
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE CROWN AND SCEPTRE, FORE 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.
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- THE CROWN AND SCEPTRE, FORE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Torridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Holsworthy
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 34359 03842
Details
SS 3403 HOLSWORTHY CP FORE STREET (East side)
16/34 The Crown and Sceptre
GV II
Inn. c.1910-20 on site of earlier building, main entrance blocked and resited mid C20. Rough cast probably over brick, pilaster quoin strips and quoins to window openings with flat lintels, crenellated parapet conceals roof. Plan: one room with carriageway opening to right, building extended at rear. 3 storeys, 3 bays; first and second floors sash windows with only one vertical glazing bar to lower frame, central window originally the entrance, square-headed carriageway entrance with double wooden gates swept down to centre and latticework upper panels. Entrance to bar now in re-entrant angle via C20 Georgian-style door incorporating fanlight. Interior mid-late C20. Photographs in the bar show the public house on this site decorated for the coronation of Edward VII in 1901 when it was a 2 storey, 3 bay building with a steeply pitched roof, sash windows, and a central entrance said to be a through passage to the stables at rear. Included primarily for group value.
Listing NGR: SS3435903842
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 91937
- 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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