VIRGINA ASH HOTEL

VIRGINA ASH HOTEL, SHERBORNE ROAD

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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:: VIRGINA ASH HOTEL, SHERBORNE ROAD

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Date:: 2004-06-07
Reference:: IOE01/11235/05
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Official list entry

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

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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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

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Legacy System number:: 261838
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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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.