The Ship Inn

2 AND 4, WILTSHIRE ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1118026
Date first listed:
02-Oct-1969
List Entry Name:
The Ship Inn
Statutory Address:
2 AND 4, WILTSHIRE ROAD
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1118026
Date first listed:
02-Oct-1969
List Entry Name:
The Ship Inn
Statutory Address 1:
2 AND 4, WILTSHIRE ROAD
Statutory Address 2:
THE SHIP INN, 104-108, PEACH STREET

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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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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:
2 AND 4, WILTSHIRE ROAD
Statutory Address:
THE SHIP INN, 104-108, PEACH STREET

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

District:
Wokingham (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Wokingham
National Grid Reference:
SU 81501 68752

Details

WOKINGHAM PEACH STREET SU 8168 NW (North side) 18/63 Nos. 104-108 (even) (The Ship Inn) 2.10.69 G.V. II Includes Nos. 2 and 4 Wiltshire Road. Inn and stables, now public house. Early C18 and C19, altered late C20; with early C16 wing facing Wiltshire Road. Part timber framed with painted brick infill, part brick. Hipped and gabled irregular old tile roofs. 3 framed bays wing; small irregular extensions on north, some with thin framing. One and 2 storeys. Very large flank chimney on right of main section with 3 truncated diamond shafts on rectangular base, one tall chimney on front lower roof slope and one on left, both with offset heads. All have tall clay pots. South front of main part:- black, rendered plinth, brick string course, and raised eaves. Sash windows with glazing bars, tripartite on both floors on left hand, on right hand on first floor. Corner window at angle return on ground floor on right with plain, fixed lights. Entrance lobby left of centre with pair of glazed and panelled doors. To left of this the former one storey stables, now with 2 segmental headed sash windows with glazing bars. East front:- Nos. 2 and 4 Wiltshire Road, 2 storey, timber framed exposed, underbuilt in brick. Right hand return gable in C20 brick. Irregular C19 casements, plain central door and early C20 door and 3-light casement in angle with main part. Interior of C16 part:- frame exposed with jowled posts, large curved braces, redundant crown post roof with clasped purlins. This building occupies an important corner site and together with the adjacent Church of All Saints (listed separately) forms an important entry to the town from the east.

Listing NGR: SU8150168752

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Legacy System number:
41707
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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