The Cross Gates Hotel
THE CROSS GATES HOTEL, A458
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1175723
- Date first listed:
- 18-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- The Cross Gates Hotel
- Statutory Address:
- THE CROSS GATES HOTEL, A458
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1175723
- Date first listed:
- 18-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- The Cross Gates Hotel
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE CROSS GATES HOTEL, A458
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:
- THE CROSS GATES HOTEL, A458
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Ford
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ4093513204
Details
SJ 4013-4113 FORD C.P. A 458, Ford
(north-west side)
13/53 The Cross Gates Hotel
-
- II
Inn. Dated 1724, built for Thomas Wilde, possibly incorporating an earlier
core. Painted brick; hipped C20 machine tile roof. L-plan. 2 storeys and
attic. East front: rendered plinth, plat bands above ground- and first-floor
windows, parapeted gable end at rear, and 5 gabled dormers with 2-light
wooden casements; brick ridge stack off-centre to right and brick ridge
stack and integral brick end stack to rear wing at left. 4-window front;
C19 two- and 3-light wooden mullioned and transomed segmental-headed casements;
half-glazed door with 2 lower flush panels between first and second windows
from left with 2-part rectangular overlight and early C19 doorcase with
panelled pilasters, and tall shaped brackets supporting hood; segmental-
headed half-glazed door to right with 2-part rectangular overlight.
Blocked doorway between second and third windows from right. Moulded
datestone beteween first and second first-floor windows from left:
W
T M
1724
2 large probably C19 sign boards flanking left-hand ground-floor windows.
The right-hand part seems to have been built at a slightly different
date from the rest (see break in plat bands). Probably C19 painted rubble
lean-to addition to right with large 3 light window to front. Left-hand
return front: windows; gabled dormers, first-floor cross-casements,
and ground-floor windows altered with probably late C19 canted bays;
central ground floor sign board. One-storey late C19 addition to left
with integral brick end stack and 3-light segmental-headed casement to
front. 2 gabled wings in angle at rear. Interior not inspected.
An inn on this site is first mentioned in 1643 when it was owned by the
Morris family. Thomas Wilde bought it in 1712 and is said to have enlarged
it by incorporating it with a nearby house at right angles to the north and
producing the present plan. V.C.H., Vol. VIII, p.227.
Listing NGR: SJ4093513204
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 258958
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Shropshire, (1908), 227
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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