The Widdicombe Arms
THE WIDDICOMBE ARMS, CLEVEDON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1129051
- Date first listed:
- 27-Apr-1973
- List Entry Name:
- The Widdicombe Arms
- Statutory Address:
- THE WIDDICOMBE ARMS, CLEVEDON ROAD
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- Reference:
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1129051
- Date first listed:
- 27-Apr-1973
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 16-Mar-1984
- List Entry Name:
- The Widdicombe Arms
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE WIDDICOMBE ARMS, CLEVEDON ROAD
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 WIDDICOMBE ARMS, CLEVEDON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Wraxall and Failand
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 49529 71531
Details
ST 47 SE WRAXALL CLEVEDON ROAD (south-west side)
3/184 The Widdicombe Arms (formerly listed as The Battleaxes Inn 27.4.73
G.V II
Village temperance inn, estate club house and caretaker's house, now a public house with integral restaurant and accommodation. Designed 1880-1881, dated 1882, by William Butterfield for Anthony Gibbs of Tyntesfield. Coursed rubble with freestone dressings and irregular quoins; mock timber framing to some of the first floor; plain tiled roofs; ashlar and rubble stacks. An irregular and asymmetrical group with the inn at the south-east and the former club hall and former caretaker's house to the north-west. The inn is 2 storeys with a central section of 2 coped gables with finials; the left gable has a chequer-board pattern; single light casement and cross windows on ground floor; 2- and 5-lights on first floor. The right window has a plain architrave and is surmounted by a flat gable with pinnacles; downpipe with a decorative Gothic style hopper and the letter G (Gibbs); off-centre gabled projecting porch with clasping buttresses, panelled doors in a hollow-chamfered, pointed surround under a hoodmould. To the left of the centre is a 2-bay section of irregular heights: at the right is a 2-light casement window with shouldered heads, and a timber-framed first floor; at the left is a projecting, single-storey, gabled wing with 2-light casement windows. To the right of the centre is a further irregular 2-bay section with a blocked door to the left and a C20 bow- fronted extension to the right; timber-framed first floor with a gabled dormer on corbels. The C20 extension joins the inn to the former club hall, through a porch with a hipped roof. The hall is of a single storey, 5 bays; timber-framed on a rubble base; single light casement windows; the centre projects as a 1:2:1 light canted stone bay, the windows have ashlar surrounds and shouldered heads, half pyramidal roof with a cast-iron finial. The north-west gable end is stone and has a 2-light Geometrical style window. Set back at the right is a single storey entrance wing; plank door in an ashlar surround with a cusped head and flanking buttress. Behind this - facing onto the Grove - is the former caretaker's house: 2 storeys, a flat roof concealed behind a moulded cornice, moulded string course; 2 bays, 2- and 3-light casement windows with, chamfered mullions and under relieving arches on the ground floor; central plank door in a segmental headed surround and under a triangular dripmould. The rear elevations are also quite irregular and asymmetrical with bows, bays and turrets on 3 floors. The interior of the inn is altered butthe former hall has a timbered roof (P. Thompson, William Butterfield, 1971).
Listing NGR: ST4952971531
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 33580
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Thompson, P, William Butterfield Victorian Architect, (1971)
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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