Wild Boar Inn
WILD BOAR INN, TARPORLEY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1130516
- Date first listed:
- 03-Apr-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Wild Boar Inn
- Statutory Address:
- WILD BOAR INN, TARPORLEY ROAD
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1130516
- Date first listed:
- 03-Apr-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Wild Boar Inn
- Statutory Address 1:
- WILD BOAR INN, TARPORLEY 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:
- WILD BOAR INN, TARPORLEY ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cheshire West and Chester (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Beeston
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 55784 59144
Details
BEESTON C.P. TARPORLEY ROAD SJ 55 NE 6/18 Wild Boar Inn - - II House, now public house and restaurant. C19 with extensive early C20 additions. Timber framed with rendered brick additions. Three storeys with tower of 4 storeys. Entrance front: Central portion of 2 storeys with third storey added in early C20. Similar single storey wing at left with early C20 storey above and mid/late C19 wing at right. Central portion of three bays with chevron-patterning to ground floor. Door at left with cambered lintel and projecting porch to right of centre with moulded decoration of C19 date. Three 4-light mullioned windows, each with a transom. Coved jetty to first floor which has decorative quatrefoils to lower row of panels of small framing and chevron patterning above. Two coved oriels at left with 5-light mullioned windows, each with a transom. Five-light window to right of these. Coving to second floor with decorative brackets, quatrefoils, and quarter circles to both rows of small-framing. Window of 8 lights at left with mullions and a transom. Similar window of 7 lights to right with 2 transoms. Each window has a gable over with decorated small framing and decorated bargeboards. Octagonal lantern to ridge at left with copper spire of double pitch. To the left is the 2-storey wing. This has a rendered plinth and 5 and 3-light mullioned windows to left and right respectively. The first floor has 4-light mullioned windows at right and left with a projecting jettied central portion supported on decorated figurehead brackets which contains a 4-light mullioned window with a transom and a circular window above. Octagonal belvedere above this with heavy moulded posts to the corners with arched openings between and an ogee dome above with a weather vane. To the right of centre is a short single-storey wing connecting with the mid/late C19 2-storey rendered wing which has two ground floor bays and three first floor 3-light casements and a gabled projecting wing at the right with decorated timber framing to the gable and decorated bargeboards. At the left is a tower with hipped roof. The rear central block has a recessed bay at left with a tripartite ground floor window of 4 lights with 2 to either side, all mullioned with a transom. Five-light first floor window above. Jettied second storey with window of 7 x 3 panes with decorated quarter circles to the gable and decorative bargeboards. To right of this the ground floor has two 4-light windows with mullions and transoms and a porch at right with quatrefoil decoration. There is a coved jetty to the first floor which has two coved oriel windows of 5-lights, each with a transom. The second floor window is of 8 lights with mullions and two transoms. Decorative framing to gable above which has C19 decorated bargeboards.
Listing NGR: SJ5578459144
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 55808
- 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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