Virgina Ash Hotel
VIRGINA ASH HOTEL, SHERBORNE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1174635
- Date first listed:
- 24-Mar-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Virgina Ash Hotel
- Statutory Address:
- VIRGINA ASH HOTEL, SHERBORNE ROAD
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1174635
- Date first listed:
- 24-Mar-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Virgina Ash Hotel
- Statutory Address 1:
- VIRGINA ASH HOTEL, SHERBORNE ROAD
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:
- VIRGINA ASH HOTEL, SHERBORNE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Henstridge
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 72108 20134
Details
ST72SW HENSTRIDGE CP SHERBORNE ROAD (North side) HENSTRIDGE ASH
3/102 Virgina Ash Hotel
24.3.61 II
Inn. C18 reputedly on Tudor foundations. Local stone coursed rubble, rendered on South elevation; Welsh slate roof between stepped coped gables, with plain clay tile roof to rear; yellow brick end chimney stacks. 2 storeys, 3 wide bays to South elevation. Plinth, plain pilaster strips between each bay; dentilled eaves course: 12-pane sash windows, the outer bays composite with added 4 pane sashes each side, all in plain surrounds; central part-glazed door with architraved surround having triple keystone; C20 extension to West side with flat roof behind parapet, and further extensions Northwards along Ash End, featuring at first floor level elaborate wrot iron bracket with hanging sign. Interior not seen. Name derives from the fact that the earlier inn was where Sir Walter Raleigh, enjoying a tobacco pipe, was doused with water by a waiter, who had never seen smoking and thought he was afire. (Wakefied, A History of Henstridge, 1953).
Listing NGR: ST7210820134
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 261838
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Wakeford, , A History of Henstridge, (1953)
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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