The Angel Hotel

THE ANGEL HOTEL, 37 AND 38, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1216307
Date first listed:
25-Jul-1952
List Entry Name:
The Angel Hotel
Statutory Address:
THE ANGEL HOTEL, 37 AND 38, HIGH STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1216307
Date first listed:
25-Jul-1952
Date of most recent amendment:
19-Sept-1977
List Entry Name:
The Angel Hotel
Statutory Address 1:
THE ANGEL HOTEL, 37 AND 38, 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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
THE ANGEL HOTEL, 37 AND 38, HIGH STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Leicestershire
District:
Harborough (District Authority)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
SP 73198 87459

Details

HIGH STREET 1. 5303 (West Side) Nos 37 and 38 (The Angel Hotel) (formerly listed as The Angel Hotel and No 38) SP 7387 1/25 SP 7387 1/26 25.7.52. II GV

2. The original hotel has a good late C18 symmetrical stucco facade with bands at 1st and 2nd floor sill heights. Modern tiled plinth. Moulded wooden eaves cornice with low pitched slate roof. 3 storeys. 5 windows, sashes with glazing bars and boxed frames, those on ground floor with cambered head linings. Rectangular projecting central Tuscan porch with small cornice and modern iron balustrade above. Carriageway entrance to rear yard under No 36 (qv). Rear range of former stables. Small single storey gabled outbuilding with Venetian window in gable end visible from street. Irregular rear facade of C18 and C19 red brick and painted brick. C19 square bay shop window at rear of building. To the right a property now used as part of the hotel. Its facade is mid/later C18, but timber exposed in north side passage wall suggests an earlier core. Facade now painted white. Originally of 3 storeys but top raised in C19 and a steep slate roof with 2 C19 gabled dormers added. 3 windows, centre blind, outer windows 3-light unbarred ashes. Modern door in later C18 wooden doorcase with flat hood on plain brackets, small ornamental frieze, fanlight. Additional side entrance.

Listing NGR: SP7318987453

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
189675
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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