Booth Hall Hotel
BOOTH HALL HOTEL, EAST STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1196827
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jun-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Booth Hall Hotel
- Statutory Address:
- BOOTH HALL HOTEL, EAST STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1196827
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jun-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Booth Hall Hotel
- Statutory Address 1:
- BOOTH HALL HOTEL, EAST STREET
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:
- BOOTH HALL HOTEL, EAST STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Hereford
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 51066 39998
Details
HEREFORD
SO5139NW EAST STREET 683-1/7/155 (North side) 10/06/52 Booth Hall Hotel
GV II*
Hotel. C18 and C19, with C15 wing, much altered, to north. MATERIALS: painted brick; hipped composite tile roof; 2 brick ridge stacks; brick stack to front. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and cellar; 5-window range: C20, 6/6 and 1, 8/8, sashes, under segmental arches; parapet. Entrance to centre right: late C19, 2-leaf 4-panel door, and lattice glazed overlight, in moulded architrave under moulded hood on scrolled consoles; C20, 8/8 sash, to right; two C20, 6/6 sashes and part-glazed door, to left; segmental arches; storeyband. Left returned side: 2 early C20, 6/6 sashes to 1st and 2nd floors; similar sash and blocked opening, to ground floor; all under segmental arches; returned storeyband. Wing to right: timber-frame and plaster; plain tile roof; C20 stack to rear. INTERIOR: 1st floor hall: ceiling has cusped quatrefoil windbraces; C15 hammerbeam roof with carved spandrels and figureheads; pierced and moulded screen. Victorian Gothic screens, balcony, doors, panelling, fireplace with overmantel, leaded lights and staircase. HISTORY: The hall is thought to have been built between 1380 and 1400 and is said to be mentioned in a deed of 1392. In 1392 the building was acquired by the City by licence from the King because they had no place in which the Sessions of the Justices of Assize or of the Peace or the Pleas of the City might be held. It seems to have been used by the Mercers Company for their Guild Room from C16 until at least 1756. The basement was used as a freemen's prison. The building finally became an inn at the end of C18 or beginning of C19, and the Great Room was lost sight of in later alterations until the collapse of a chimney in 1919 revealed the presence of the carved roof. A former landlord is mentioned in Borrow's Lavengro. (Transactions of the Woolhope Naturalists' Field Club: 1981-: 165-170; Proceedings of the Woolhope Club: 1919-1921; RCHME).
Listing NGR: SO5106639998
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 372334
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Herefordshire I South West, (1931)
Proceedings of the Woolhope Club in Proceedings of the Woolhope Club, (1919-21)
Proceedings of the Woolhope Club in Proceedings of the Woolhope Club, (1981), 165-70
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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