Ram's Head Hotel and Mounting Block
RAM'S HEAD HOTEL AND MOUNTING BLOCK, FOUNTAIN SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1231354
- Date first listed:
- 27-Nov-1963
- List Entry Name:
- Ram's Head Hotel and Mounting Block
- Statutory Address:
- RAM'S HEAD HOTEL AND MOUNTING BLOCK, FOUNTAIN SQUARE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1231354
- Date first listed:
- 27-Nov-1963
- List Entry Name:
- Ram's Head Hotel and Mounting Block
- Statutory Address 1:
- RAM'S HEAD HOTEL AND MOUNTING BLOCK, FOUNTAIN SQUARE
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:
- RAM'S HEAD HOTEL AND MOUNTING BLOCK, FOUNTAIN SQUARE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cheshire East (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Disley
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 97461 84611
Details
SJ 97 84 DISLEY C.P. FOUNTAIN SQUARE
7/26 Ram's Head Hotel and Mounting Block
GV II
Inn: C.1840. White-washed and pebble-dashed sandstone rubble with black-painted sandstone dressings. Green slate roof with moulded stone copings and 4 stone chimneys. Tudor Gothick style. 2½ storeys. Symmetrical 5-bay front (2:1:2) and central single-storey porch. End bays project slightly under coped triangular gables with 3-light, mullioned windows under hood moulds and single lancers under hood moulds in gables. Porch has coped, plain parapet with raised centre above 4-centred, arched, doorcase with Gothick tracery in fan light. Original half glass doors with narrow half glazed panels to the side bordered by narrow wooden half columns behind, with C20 copies in front. Hooded lancets in side. Above is 3-light mullion and a carved ram's head on coped eave. Similar contemporary L-shaped wing to right. Interior: Many 4-centred, arched openings with hood moulds on ram's head label stops. Gothick dogleg staircase with cast-iron balusters with pierced trefoils and buttressed octagonal newel with moulded Gothick panels and very tall crocketted pinnacle above.
A single, sandstone, mounting block of 4 steps just to right of the porch.
Listing NGR: SJ9746184611
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 406485
- 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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