Bear Inn
BEAR INN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1171705
- Date first listed:
- 24-Feb-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Bear Inn
- Statutory Address:
- BEAR INN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1171705
- Date first listed:
- 24-Feb-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Bear Inn
- Statutory Address 1:
- BEAR INN
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:
- BEAR INN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Gloucestershire
- District:
- Stroud (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Rodborough
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 85365 02650
Details
SO 8502 RODBOROUGH HOUNDSCROFT
17/119 Bear Inn
II
Former coaching inn, now hotel. Late C17; late C18 and early C19 additions. Large addition of c1920. Coursed rubble limestone, mostly roughcast rendered; ashlar and rubble chimneys; stone slate and plain tile roofs. Two-storey with attic; two-storey extension of range to north, linking with large 3-storey with attic block. Two-storey with attic rear wing. East front: late C17 building with 2 gables to left has 2-window fenestration, 3-light chamfered mullioned casements with hoodmoulds to ground and upper floors; 2-light attic casements. Central doorway with flat- roofed lobby addition. Ridge-mounted chimneys at original gable ends of building. Early C20 extension to right with large segmental arched entrance beyond gabled bay with low eaves; later infill with doorway below. Projecting mullioned window above corbel table set over entrance, with small gable over. Round end of large early C20 block projects forward to right with hipped roof and curved mullioned window to ground floor. North side: 5- window fenestration, timber cross windows to arcaded ground floor, cross windows in plain openings on middle and upper floors. Four hipped attic dormers. West side: return end of main block to left with 4-window fenestration, partially obscured on ground floor by C20 flat-roofed addition which is not of special interest. To right is early C19 projecting wing with single-window 12-pane sash fenestration, attic gable with small-paned casement and doorway with stone lintel and 6-panel door in north side. West gable end has 2-window 8-pane sash fenestration and outshut to right with upper floor 3-light stone mullioned casement. Block set back to right is part of C20 enlargement. An important coaching inn, forming the base of the Niblett family's carrying business in second half of Cl.8. Occupies a prominent position on Rodborough Common. (Illustration of building before c1920 additions in S.J. Gardiner and L.C. Padin, Stroud and the Five Valleys in Old Photographs, 1984; and N.M. Herbert, 'Rodborough' in V.C.H. Glos. xi, 1976, pp.218-234.)
Listing NGR: SO8536502650
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 131994
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Gloucester, (1976), 218-234
Gardiner, S J, Padin, L C, Stroud and the Five Valleys in Old Photographs, (1984)
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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