GREAT WHITE HORSE HOTEL

GREAT WHITE HORSE HOTEL, 43, TAVERN STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1235799
Date first listed:: 19-Dec-1951
List Entry Name:: GREAT WHITE HORSE HOTEL
Statutory Address:: GREAT WHITE HORSE HOTEL, 43, TAVERN STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1235799
Date first listed:: 19-Dec-1951
List Entry Name:: GREAT WHITE HORSE HOTEL
Statutory Address 1:: GREAT WHITE HORSE HOTEL, 43, TAVERN STREET

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: GREAT WHITE HORSE HOTEL, 43, TAVERN STREET

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

County:: Suffolk
District:: Ipswich (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TM 16462 44644

Details

1. 1260 TAVERN STREET (North Side)

No 43 (Great White Horse Hotel) TM 1644 NW 1/212 19.12.51.

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2. Originally a C16-C17 timber-framed building refronted in the early C19. It was made famous as the inn in Dicken's "Pickwick Papers". The present front is of grey gault brick with a parapet and a rusticated stucco ground storey. 3 storeys. 7 window range on the Tavern Street front and 2 window range on the Northgate Street front. A 3 storey wing of 5 window range extends north with a further, later, 2 storeyed wing of 7 window range at the north end in Northgate Street. All windows are double-hung sashes with glazing bars, in painted reveals, with stuccoed flat arches. The ground storey has stucco doorway with wide panelled pilasters, Ionic plain columns in antis and a cornice on paired brackets with a figure of a white horse above. Roofs slate. Part of the original internal courtyard has been glazed over and pant of it has been preserved in the present lounge. It has some original windows, double-hung sashes with glazing bars and small panes, one oriel bay window and some exposed timber-framing.

Nos 31 to 41 (odd) and No 43 (Great White Horse Hotel) form a group. Also No 43 (Great White Horse Hotel) forms a group with all the listed buildings in Northgate Street, except Garden Wall to No 9.

Listing NGR: TM1646244644

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Legacy System number:: 426649
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.