The Bear Hotel
THE BEAR HOTEL, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1200701
- Date first listed:
- 01-Feb-1967
- List Entry Name:
- The Bear Hotel
- Statutory Address:
- THE BEAR HOTEL, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1200701
- Date first listed:
- 01-Feb-1967
- List Entry Name:
- The Bear Hotel
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE BEAR HOTEL, HIGH 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:
- THE BEAR HOTEL, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Warwickshire
- District:
- Stratford-on-Avon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Alcester
- National Grid Reference:
- SP0897957361
Details
ALCESTER HIGH STREET
SP0857 (East side)
4/75 The Bear Hotel
01/02/67
GV II
Inn. C17, much altered mid/late C19 and C20. Timber framed and roughcast, and some whitewashed brick. Tile roof; brick stacks. U-plan. One-storey and attic; 4-window range. Late C20 glazed double-leaf doors inside large open porch with wood piers and shaped brackets, and sides with C17 turned balusters. Ground floor built out on left; this and the porch have slate roofs. Canted bay on right. Ground floor has C20 casements with leaded lights. First floor has half-dormers with C19 iron casements with glazing bars, and shaped bargeboards. Brick stack in left hand front corner. To rear: Small amount of exposed framing in centre. C19 brick wing with slate roof on left. Brick wing on right rebuilt late C20. Interior: Ground floor has some exposed framing and ceiling beams. Much altered. Rebuilt wing has re-used king post roof trusses. Upper floor said
to have exposed framing.
(V.C.H.: Warwickshire, Vol.III, p.10).
Listing NGR: SP0897957361
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 305234
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Doubleday, AH, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Warwick, (1945), 10
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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