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The White Bear

The White Bear, 11, Church Street, Barnsley, S70 2AB

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1151142
Date first listed:: 13-Jan-1986
Statutory Address:: The White Bear, 11, Church Street, Barnsley, S70 2AB

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1151142
Date first listed:: 13-Jan-1986
Statutory Address 1:: The White Bear, 11, Church Street, Barnsley, S70 2AB

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: The White Bear, 11, Church Street, Barnsley, S70 2AB

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

District:: Barnsley (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SE3444906481

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 4 October 2021 to update the name and address and to reformat the text to current standards

SE3406SW 9/9

BARNSLEY Barnsley CHURCH STREET (east side) No 11 (The White Bear)

(Formerly listed as The Royal Hotel)

GV II

Hotel. Late C18, probably re-roofed mid C19, main doorway probably early C20. Painted, dressed stone. Welsh slate roof. Three storeys, seven-bay near-symmetrical facade. Raised ashlar quoins. Wide central doorway with round-arched head and splayed jambs in a single cyma moulding. To far left is a part-blocked carriage entrance with elliptical head with alternately extended voussoirs. All windows are in plain raised surrounds, those to ground-floor right being c1975 replacements. First-floor sill band, second-floor sill and lintel bands. Plain sashes to first and second floors. Second-floor windows slightly shorter. Moulded stone brackets to gutter. Gable copings. Three later brick stacks.

Rear: projecting wing with similar sash windows, hipped roof and tiled ground-floor addition.

Formerly called the White Bear Public House and renamed after Princess Victoria changed horses here while travelling between Harewood and Wentworth Woodhouse in 1835.

Listing NGR: SE3444906481

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 333695
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.