Stag and Hounds Public House and Attached Gates
STAG AND HOUNDS PUBLIC HOUSE AND ATTACHED GATES, 74, OLD MARKET STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1207592
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jan-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Stag and Hounds Public House and Attached Gates
- Statutory Address:
- STAG AND HOUNDS PUBLIC HOUSE AND ATTACHED GATES, 74, OLD MARKET STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1207592
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jan-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Stag and Hounds Public House and Attached Gates
- Statutory Address 1:
- STAG AND HOUNDS PUBLIC HOUSE AND ATTACHED GATES, 74, OLD MARKET 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:
- STAG AND HOUNDS PUBLIC HOUSE AND ATTACHED GATES, 74, OLD MARKET STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- City of Bristol (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 59594 73116
Details
BRISTOL
ST5973SE OLD MARKET STREET, Old Market 901-1/12/1656 (South side) 08/01/59 No.74 Stag and Hounds Public House and attached gates
GV II
Formerly court, now public house. Court of 1483, predominantly early C18, partly rebuilt 1960s, refurbished 1987. Rendered rubble, limestone details and pantile roof. Formerly single front room with a right-hand open court to the rear, now infilled. 3 storeys, attic and basement; 4-window range. A wide gabled front with the first floor projecting forward and overhanging 4 closely-chamfered stone Doric columns to a moulded entablature beam, set forward to the columns, with panelled clasping pilasters and moulded strings to each floor, and bracketed eaves. Central doorway with C20 double doors, flanking C19 two-light left-hand and 4-light right-hand plate-glass windows; windows above in bolection-moulded exposed frames, with 6/6-pane sashes. 1-window right-hand return; the rest of the side is c1988. The rear has a narrow projecting left-hand section, and a projecting second-floor section to the right. INTERIOR: extensively altered 1987; some early C18 panelling and cornice to the front ground-floor room with a stone right-hand fire surround with pulvinated frieze and cornice; left-hand front open-well stair with uncut string, barleysugar balusters, square newels with pyramidal finials, and a moulded rail; fully-panelled first-floor room with 6-panel door and C20 fire surround; a well in the former rear court has a C19 iron hand pump with fly wheel and pump rods. Stone vaulted basement with barrel skid. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached timber fences flank the front doorway, with newels with spike finials, and gates to the left-hand cellar hatch. HISTORICAL NOTE: originally the Pie-Poudre Court of the Market, reputedly held in the first-floor room. Until the 1960s the gable was truncated. The right-hand return rebuilt after the demolition of the neighbouring building through the Inner Ring Road. (Gomme A: Street Index of Buildings of Architectural or Historic Interest: 42).
Listing NGR: ST5959473116
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 380065
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Gomme, A, Street Index of Buildings of Architectural or Historic Interest, (), 42
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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