Ilchester Arms Hotel
ILCHESTER ARMS HOTEL, MARKET STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1172420
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1956
- List Entry Name:
- Ilchester Arms Hotel
- Statutory Address:
- ILCHESTER ARMS HOTEL, MARKET STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1172420
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1956
- List Entry Name:
- Ilchester Arms Hotel
- Statutory Address 1:
- ILCHESTER ARMS HOTEL, MARKET 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:
- ILCHESTER ARMS HOTEL, MARKET STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Abbotsbury
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 57660 85348
Details
SY 5785 ABBOTSBURY MARKET STREET, WEST SIDE
10/37 Ilchester Arms Hotel 26.1.56 GV II
Hotel, attached in street line. Early C19 refacing of the 2 left hand units and late C18 build of main facade at right hand. Square dressed stone walls, right hand block with Portland stone pilasters and framing to carriage entrance (blocked) with moulded imposts and projecting keystone. Slate roofs, with ridges at different heights for each unit. Brick stacks, at left hand gable end, at ridge of centre unit, backing on to carriage entrance; stone stacks at gable ends of the main facade at right hand. 2 storeys with dormers (left and right units), each unit of different heights. 8 windows in total. Left unit: 2- and 3-light wooden casements with glazing-bars. 3-light cast-iron casements with glazing-bars at right ground. Stone lintels with projecting keys. Cellar-opening at left ground. Blocked doorway at centre with depressed-arch head. 2 dormers with 2-light wooden casements and hipped slate roofs. Centre unit, 3 windows: wooden casements with glazing-bars to first floor. Ground floor openings: tall carriage-entrance, with 2-leaf plank doors and wooden lintel over; panelled door with stone voussoirs over; 4-light cast-iron case- ments with glazing-bars, in a widened opening; front door to hotel: C19 flush panelled door with same reveals and moulded architrave. Porch, carried on 2 cast- iron columns with flat corniced canopy over. This has C19 cast-iron railings round it. Main facade: 3 windows, tall sashes with thin glazing-bars, flared stone lintels with projecting keys, painted white. Stone cills. Centre bay projects slightly with a steep pediment over, and painted achievement-of-arms of The Earls of Ilchester in the tympanum. Blocked carriage entrance, with matching inserted sash-window, see above. 2 dormers over the outer bays with 2-light wooden casements with hipped slate roofs over. Attached premises at rear of left hand unit are not of special interest. (RCHM, Dorset I, p. 9 (8).)
Listing NGR: SY5766085350
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 105156
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1974), 9
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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