Crab Inn
CRAB INN, CHURCH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1212445
- Date first listed:
- 14-Feb-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Crab Inn
- Statutory Address:
- CRAB INN, CHURCH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1212445
- Date first listed:
- 14-Feb-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Crab Inn
- Statutory Address 1:
- CRAB INN, CHURCH ROAD
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:
- CRAB INN, CHURCH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Isle of Wight (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Shanklin
- National Grid Reference:
- SZ 58224 80997
Details
SHANKLIN SZ5881 CHURCH ROAD 1352-0/8/190 Crab Inn GV II Inn. North-west part late C18 and shown on map of 1792, south-east part mid C19. North-west part of red brick and thatched roof. 1 storey and attics. 3 eyebrow dormers and 3 triple C19 casements. Projecting gabled porch to central bay. South-east part has large mid C19 Isle of Wight coursed stone gable and thatched roof. Fretted bargeboards and pendant. Attic storey has 4-light oriel. 3 casements, 2 with stained glass to ground floor and projecting gabled thatched weatherporch. Henry Longfellow visited the Crab Inn and wrote to his friend G W Green: 'I write you this from a lovely little thatch-roofed inn all covered with ivy, and extremely desirable, for which I have been requested to write an inscription which reads: O traveller, stay thy weary feet; Drink of this fountain pure and sweet; It flows for rich and poor the same. Then go thy way, remembering still The wayside well beneath the hill The cup of water in His name.'
Listing NGR: SZ5822480997
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 310225
- 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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