The Boot Inn

THE BOOT INN, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1184310
Date first listed:
06-Jul-1987
List Entry Name:
The Boot Inn
Statutory Address:
THE BOOT INN, HIGH STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1184310
Date first listed:
06-Jul-1987
List Entry Name:
The Boot Inn
Statutory Address 1:
THE BOOT INN, HIGH STREET

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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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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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Location

Statutory Address:
THE BOOT INN, HIGH STREET

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

District:
Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Tisbury
National Grid Reference:
ST 94448 29615

Details

TISBURY HIGH STREET ST 92 NW (east side)

4/230 The Boot Inn

GV II

Inn. Circa 1600 with additions to front of c1700 and C19. Timber-framing rebuilt in rubble stone with dressed limestone additions, concrete tiled roof, brick stacks. Three-cell original plan. Two-storey, 3-window. C20 door on south side of C18 range with blocked door and C20 casements to left, first floor has blocked sash with plain architrave, main range to right has two 2- light C20 mullioned casement and blocked doorway to ground floor and two 2-light C20 mullioned casements to first floor. Front of C18 range to left has stone 2-storey canted bay with 4-pane sashes, segmental-headed stone tablet with 'The Boot Inn' inscribed and incised inscription across first floor 'BENETT AND INDEPENDENCE', an election slogan; C16 range to left has 2 and 3-light recessed chamfered mullioned casements. Attached to right of main front is single-storey C19 extension with C20 bay window and polygonal roof. Rear has cast-iron casement and pointed doorway to left, 2-light and 3-light casements to right. First floor has 2-light mullioned casement and wooden casements. Interior retains some square-panelled timber-framing in wall between original range and C18 addition. Middle room, former parlour has deeply chamfered beam with stepped stops, open fireplace in north room with chamfered arched lintel. South room has chamfered beam marking position of former smoke hood, replaced in stone. (Unpublished records of RCHM (England), Salisbury)

Listing NGR: ST9444829615

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Legacy System number:
321020
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

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Inventory of the City of Salisbury, (1981)

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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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