The Malt Shovel Public House
THE MALT SHOVEL PUBLIC HOUSE, 1, CORN MARKET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1135451
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1950
- List Entry Name:
- The Malt Shovel Public House
- Statutory Address:
- THE MALT SHOVEL PUBLIC HOUSE, 1, CORN MARKET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1135451
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1950
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 15-Nov-1988
- List Entry Name:
- The Malt Shovel Public House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE MALT SHOVEL PUBLIC HOUSE, 1, CORN MARKET
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 MALT SHOVEL PUBLIC HOUSE, 1, CORN MARKET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wakefield (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 45454 21895
Details
PONTEFRACT CORN MARKET SE 4521 NW (south-west side) 7/16 No 1 (The Malt Shovel 29.7.50 Public House) (formerly listed under Best Fair)
GV II+
Public house on site of older building. C14 cellar with late C19 public house above altered in C20. 2 storeys and cellar, 4 first-floor windows. Public house: red brick, faced with glazed tiles on ground floor and timber-framing on first floor; Welsh slate roof. Ground floor; to right, wide passage opening through to rear; to left segmental tripartite bow window and part-glazed door below overlight. First floor: studding with central braces, interrupted by paired casement windows. Windows and door have leaded glazing. Brick ridge stack to left of door. Interior, cellar under front of building: two bays of sexpartite rib vaulting, the ashlar ribs heavy and deeply chamfered, and running out into side walls, with a circular boss in each bay, the northern one damaged, the southern one with fine face mask; ashlar door suround has chamfered shouldered lintel, and is rebated for outward-opening door. A flagged barrel-vaulted passage curves as it climbs up to stone steps at rear of front range; bar has imported chamfered beams. The March 1968 Provisional List compares the cellar with one in Malton and a finer one in Gloucester. Recorded by West Yorkshire Archaeology Unit.
Listing NGR: SE4545421895
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 342655
- 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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