The Downe Arms Inn
THE DOWNE ARMS INN, 15, MARKET PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1162237
- Date first listed:
- 23-Apr-1952
- List Entry Name:
- The Downe Arms Inn
- Statutory Address:
- THE DOWNE ARMS INN, 15, MARKET PLACE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1162237
- Date first listed:
- 23-Apr-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 16-Dec-1986
- List Entry Name:
- The Downe Arms Inn
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE DOWNE ARMS INN, 15, MARKET PLACE
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 DOWNE ARMS INN, 15, MARKET PLACE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- East Riding of Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Snaith and Cowick
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 64199 22130
Details
SNAITH AND COWICK MARKET PLACE SE 6422 (south side) 12/75 No 15 (The Downe Arms Inn) (formerly listed as 23.4.52 Down Arms Hotel) GV II Inn. Mid C18 with early C19 bow windows. For Downe Estate. Brown brick. Clay tile roof; lead roofs to bow windows. Double-depth plan, originally with 2-room central entrance-hall front (now one room); wing to rear right. 3 storeys, 4 first-floor windows. Plinth, angle pilasters to returns. 3 blocked basement openings. Entrance to right of centre has 4 stone steps to fielded-panel door and plain overlight in architrave beneath channelled wedge lintel with fluted key. Large single bow windows to either side, each with three 16-pane flush sashes, pilasters with fluted necking, entablature with moulded cornice and half-domed roofs. First floor: C19 4-pane sashes in original openings with flush wooden architraves, projecting sills and channelled and keyed wedge lintels. Second floor: original 8-pane sashes in similar surrounds. Moulded cornice. Partly-projecting end stacks with rebuilt upper sections. 2-course first-floor bands to side elevations. Interior: fielded-panel doors to first floor; landing contains good re-set late C17 balustrade with moulded handrail and bulb-on-urn balusters with circular knops, traditionally associated with former courtroom in the inn.
Listing NGR: SE6419822130
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 164936
- 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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