Market Tavern

Market Tavern, Market Square, Tenbury Wells, WR15 8BL

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1180008
Date first listed:
24-Oct-1988
List Entry Name:
Market Tavern
Statutory Address:
Market Tavern, Market Square, Tenbury Wells, WR15 8BL
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1180008
Date first listed:
24-Oct-1988
List Entry Name:
Market Tavern
Statutory Address 1:
Market Tavern, Market Square, Tenbury Wells, WR15 8BL

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
Market Tavern, Market Square, Tenbury Wells, WR15 8BL

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Worcestershire
District:
Malvern Hills (District Authority)
Parish:
Tenbury
National Grid Reference:
SO 59507 68212

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 27/05/2020

SO 5868 - 5968
8/115

TENBURY CP
MARKET SQUARE (centre)
Market Tavern

(formerly listed as The Tavern Inn)

GV
II
Public house. Early C19 remodelling of a C18 building, altered late C19. Brick, part painted and part stuccoed with mainly hipped plain tiled roofs and gable-end parapet with kneelers to south-west. Square plan comprised of two main ranges to north and west with later addition in south-east angle. Two storeys and attic with dormers. Main north elevation: Three and a half bays. There is a twelve-pane sash with a basket-arched head, a four-pane sash with a cambered head, a blocked window and a blocked archway with a cambered head on the ground floor and three twelve-pane sashes and an eight-pane sash, all with basket-arched heads on the first floor. Main entrance at centre of three-bay part has a gabled canopy on shaped brackets and a partly glazed C20 door. Two C19 former shop fronts to south elevation.

Listing NGR: SO5950768212

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
150806
Legacy System:
LBS

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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