Ye Olde Boars Head Public House
YE OLDE BOARS HEAD PUBLIC HOUSE, LONG STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1162256
- Date first listed:
- 15-Mar-1957
- List Entry Name:
- Ye Olde Boars Head Public House
- Statutory Address:
- YE OLDE BOARS HEAD PUBLIC HOUSE, LONG STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1162256
- Date first listed:
- 15-Mar-1957
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 23-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Ye Olde Boars Head Public House
- Statutory Address 1:
- YE OLDE BOARS HEAD PUBLIC HOUSE, LONG STREET
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:
- YE OLDE BOARS HEAD PUBLIC HOUSE, LONG STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Rochdale (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 87052 06266
Details
MIDDLETON LONG STREET SD 80 NE (west side) 2/11 Ye Olde Boar's Head Public House 15/3/57 (formerly listed as Ye Olde Boar's Head Inn) Gv II* Public house. Early C17. Datestones include 1632 in cellar and 1587 on fireplace in C18 addition. C19 and C20 alterations and additions. Square-panel timber-framing on stone plinth with graduated stone slate roof and brick addition. Total of 5 bays and 2 storeys with wings projecting to the rear of bays 1, 4 and 5 and an outshut to the rear of bays 2 and 3. Bold projecting stone plinth (painted). 2 doors in bay 2; one studded oak with elementary overlight, the other blocked and with a basket-arched head. Bay 4 projects slightly and is gabled. Bays 1 and 2 are also gabled. All gables have decorative timber panelling but only that to bay 1 is original. C18 and C19 casement and tripartite sash windows with glazing bars to ground floor.5, 3, 6 and 6-light ovolo-moulded timber mullion windows to first floor. 2 brick ridge chimney stacks. Bay 5 (originally the Sessions Room) was added in the C18 in brick and partly rebuilt in C20. It has a large Venetian window which accommodates double doors. The left return is largely obscured (or rebuilt) by applied timbers. Interior: the timber-framed structure which employs square panels, diagonal braces to the principal posts and diagonally braced tie-beam roof trusses with wind bracing is largely intact. The ovolo-moulded timber-mullioned windows which were obscured by later rear additions are still visible. Chamfered floor beams with ogee stops. Staircase with deep handrail on turned balusters and a newel with bold acorn finial. Massive stone fire surround in former sessions room with carved boar's heads and date. Later cast-iron fire surrounds. Dates of 1638 and 1642 scratched into plasterwork in first floor room also faint wall paintings outlining pendentives on the upper portions of the wall. The early history is unclear probably being built as 2 houses the left one having a baffle-entry plan.
Listing NGR: SD8705206266
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 213451
- 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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