37 Market Place (The former Bush Hotel, including 1-10 Bush Walk)

1-10, Bush Walk, Wokingham, RG40 1AT

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1155129
Date first listed:: 12-Nov-1951
List Entry Name:: 37 Market Place (The former Bush Hotel, including 1-10 Bush Walk)
Statutory Address:: 1-10, Bush Walk, Wokingham, RG40 1AT

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1155129
Date first listed:: 12-Nov-1951
Date of most recent amendment:: 15-Jul-1987
List Entry Name:: 37 Market Place (The former Bush Hotel, including 1-10 Bush Walk)
Statutory Address 1:: 1-10, Bush Walk, Wokingham, RG40 1AT
Statutory Address 2:: Former Bush Hotel, 37, Market Place, Wokingham, RG40 1AT

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: 1-10, Bush Walk, Wokingham, RG40 1AT
Statutory Address:: Former Bush Hotel, 37, Market Place, Wokingham, RG40 1AT

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

District:: Wokingham (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Wokingham
National Grid Reference:: SU8124268615

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 25 May 2023 to correct the name and address and to reformat the text current standards SU 8168 NW 18/24 WOKINGHAM MARKET PLACE (north side) No.37 (The former Bush Hotel, including Nos. 1-10 Bush Walk)

(formerly listed as No.37 (The Old Bull and Bush, including Nos. 1-10 Bush Walk) previously listed as The Bush Hotel)

12.11.51 G.V. II Former inn, now shops. Late C15, extended C17, extended and altered late C18, C19 and C20. Part timber framed, part painted brick, part tile hung; slate roof over front section, old tile gabled roofs at rear. U-plan; front section probably four framed bays originally, with yard entry second bay from left and now covered in. Nine framed bays in eastern rear wing, the middle three bays the former hall, and three framed bays in western rear wing, with brick former stables on end. Front section three storeys and cellar, rear wings one and half and two storeys.

Road front: three bays. Sash windows with glazing bars on tile hung upper floors. Two large flanking chimneys. Ground floor of rusticated brick piers between large C20 windows with glazing bars, and supporting frieze and dentilled cornice. Yard entry formerly in centre bay, now to left.

Rear wings: on the west two framed bays of two storeys with thin framing on first floor and painted brick infill, two- and three- light C19 casements; central chimney on ridge. On the right and at end of this one and half storeys painted brick former stables with two gabled hay loading bays breaking eaves with planked doors. C20, two-light metal casements on ground floor. On the east two storey wing of timber framed bays rendered and painted. Two tall chimneys on rear slope. Three large, early C19 sash windows with glazing bars on ground floor; C19 irregular two-light casements on first floor.

Interior: most of remaining timber frame visible in eastern wing, with heavy beams and joists, jowled posts and arch braces. Sooted roof timbers in hall section. A two cell cellar probably C15 in part under front section partly of brick and conglomerate, with arched recesses under chimney and pointed niche in north wall.

Listing NGR: SU8123268584

Legacy

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Legacy System number:: 41684
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.