The Grapes Tavern
THE GRAPES TAVERN, EAST STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1206641
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jun-1952
- List Entry Name:
- The Grapes Tavern
- Statutory Address:
- THE GRAPES TAVERN, EAST STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1206641
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jun-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 27-Jul-1994
- List Entry Name:
- The Grapes Tavern
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE GRAPES TAVERN, 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:
- THE GRAPES TAVERN, 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 50987 39978
Details
HEREFORD
SO5039NE EAST STREET 683-1/2/316 (North side) 10/06/52 The Grapes Tavern (Formerly Listed as: WEST STREET Old Bunch of Grapes Tavern)
GV II
Dwellings, now inn. C17, C18 and C19. Stucco; Welsh slate roof; brick stack to rear. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and cellar; 5-window range: early C19, 6/6 sashes and to left, C20 tripartite 2/2: 6/6: 2/2 sash; hoist door. C20, 2-light casement and early C19, 3/6 sash over; to left, 2 stuccoed openings. Entrance to centre right: C19, 4-panel door and blocked overlight with grooved pilasters and remains of flat hood; to right, blocked, probably C19 shop-window with grooved pilasters and canted return with cast-iron pillar; to left, 3 blocked openings, and late C19 double-doors with moulded architraves. Right returned side: band to 2nd floor; stuccoed opening over. INTERIOR: extensively restored to reveal original C17 timber-frame on all floor levels, and incorporates an original C17 two-light mullion window on 2nd floor and a C17 six-light mullion window on 1st floor. C19 staircase with stick balusters; early C19 dogleg staircase with turned balusters. 2nd floor: 2 and 4-panel doors. 1st floor: 2 and 4-panel doors. Cellar: plank door. The weekly, "London Letter", (C18) was read out in its ground floor principal parlour by a chairman appointed annually for the purpose. The original C18 armed bench seats of the parlour remain in situ having been restored. (RCHME).
Listing NGR: SO5098739978
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 372335
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Herefordshire I South West, (1931)
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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