Pen and Parchment Public House
PEN AND PARCHMENT PUBLIC HOUSE, BRIDGE FOOT
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1187763
- Date first listed:
- 09-Feb-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Pen and Parchment Public House
- Statutory Address:
- PEN AND PARCHMENT PUBLIC HOUSE, BRIDGE FOOT
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1187763
- Date first listed:
- 09-Feb-1972
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 04-Apr-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Pen and Parchment Public House
- Statutory Address 1:
- PEN AND PARCHMENT PUBLIC HOUSE, BRIDGE FOOT
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:
- PEN AND PARCHMENT PUBLIC HOUSE, BRIDGE FOOT
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Warwickshire
- District:
- Stratford-on-Avon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Stratford-upon-Avon
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 20410 55010
Details
STRATFORD-UPON-AVON
SP2055SW BRIDGE FOOT 604-1/8/9 (North East side) 09/02/72 Pen and Parchment Public House (Formerly Listed as: BRIDGEFOOT Unicorn Hotel and premises occupied by Conservative Association)
GV II
Public house. Late C18 probably with earlier origins. Brick; tile roof with brick stacks. 2 storeys; 3-window range. 2 rear wings. Top modillioned brick cornice. Round-headed entrance to left of centre has architrave and bracketed open pediment; fanlight with intersecting glazing bars over 6-flush-panel door. Central 2-storey canted bay window with cornices and 16-pane horned sashes and 4-pane side lights, panelled apron to 1st floor; other windows have sills, and heads covered by C20 canopies; those to ground floor have 16-pane horned sashes in moulded frames, those to 1st floor have 12-pane paired sashes. Left return has wing with hipped tile roof, end recessed; windows with rubbed brick flat arches, casement and 12-pane sash to ground floor, 12-pane thick-bar sashes to 1st floor, end has 12-pane sash to stair window. Early C20 cross wing across rear. Right return (being rebuilt April 1991) has wing with coped gable. INTERIOR: exposed beams, some probably re-used: one ovolo-moulded, one richly moulded. The large barn (not included), said to have been used as theatre in C18, is of late C18 or early C19 date and much altered.
Listing NGR: SP2041055010
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 366153
- 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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