The Congresbury Arms

The Congresbury Arms, High Street, Congresbury, Bristol, BS49 5JA

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1158076
Date first listed:: 09-Feb-1961
List Entry Name:: The Congresbury Arms
Statutory Address:: The Congresbury Arms, High Street, Congresbury, Bristol, BS49 5JA

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1158076
Date first listed:: 09-Feb-1961
List Entry Name:: The Congresbury Arms
Statutory Address 1:: The Congresbury Arms, High Street, Congresbury, Bristol, BS49 5JA

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 Congresbury Arms, High Street, Congresbury, Bristol, BS49 5JA

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

District:: North Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Congresbury
National Grid Reference:: ST 43753 63825

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 20 February 2025 to amend the name and address and reformat the text to current standards.

ST 46 SW 4/104

CONGRESBURY C.P. HIGH STREET (east side) The Congresbury Arms

(Formerly listed as Ship and Castle Inn)

9.2.61

G.V. II Inn. Early C18 with C19 alterations. Colourwashed render with double Roman tile roof to roadside range, pantiles to rear additions. Long two-storey, six-window range to road with scattered casement fenestration and two doorways: that to left-hand with flat hood on carved brackets with two-leaf plank door, that to right-hand with single leaf plank door. Parallel two-storey, two-window wing at rear with higher roof level and splayed wing to the north with hipped roof. Rear ranges have twelve- and sixteen-pane sash fenestration.

Interior: some chamfered beams.

The inn forms a group with the Village Cross (q.v.).

Listing NGR: ST4375363825

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

Legacy System number:: 33971
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.