The Giant Inn
THE GIANT INN, LONG STREET, CERNE ABBAS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1119448
- Date first listed:
- 19-Nov-1985
- List Entry Name:
- The Giant Inn
- Statutory Address:
- THE GIANT INN, LONG STREET, CERNE ABBAS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1119448
- Date first listed:
- 19-Nov-1985
- List Entry Name:
- The Giant Inn
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE GIANT INN, LONG STREET, CERNE ABBAS
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 GIANT INN, LONG STREET, CERNE ABBAS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Cerne Abbas
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 66564 01146
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 29/01/2015
ST 6601
11/103
CERNE ABBAS,
LONG STREET, (south side),
The Giant Inn
(Formerly listed as The Red Lion)
GV II
Attached Public House. Early C20. Red brick walls in
stretcher bond, with ornamental brick pilaster-buttresses
at corners, with moulded wooden brackets above. Slate roof.
Brick stacks behind ridge at left hand, and at right hand in
front of ridge. 2 storeys. 3-windows, first floor have
segmental heads and a Venetian window at centre. Gauged
brickwork. Each has tripartite casements with close mesh
of glazing-bars. Ground floor, canted bay windows left
and right of entrance, left one, four, one light, with
lead lights and "Old English" revival influence over the
transom. Right of door, two canted bays of the same type,
with continuous stretcher brickwork plinth. Front door,
set in, 2-leaf, recessed panelled with 12 lights over.
Continuous name-board over the canted bays for whole length,
with moulded cornice. Interior: large stone fireplace, with
moulded jambs and 4-centred head, reset inside, C16.
Listing NGR: ST6656301141
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 105434
- 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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