The Three Horseshoes Public House
THE THREE HORSESHOES PUBLIC HOUSE, CHURCH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1239808
- Date first listed:
- 07-Apr-1965
- List Entry Name:
- The Three Horseshoes Public House
- Statutory Address:
- THE THREE HORSESHOES PUBLIC HOUSE, CHURCH ROAD
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- Date:
- 2001-07-02
- Reference:
- IOE01/04811/33
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1239808
- Date first listed:
- 07-Apr-1965
- List Entry Name:
- The Three Horseshoes Public House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE THREE HORSESHOES PUBLIC HOUSE, 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:
- THE THREE HORSESHOES PUBLIC HOUSE, CHURCH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Colchester (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Fordham
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 92784 28129
Details
FORDHAM CHURCH ROAD 1. 5214 The Three Horseshoes Public House TL 92 NW 7/27 7.4.65 II GV 2. C16 and earlier, timber framed house of one storey with attics and 2 gabled east facing dormers. Elevations rendered, roof ridged and gabled, clad with pegtile. Modern chimney stack at north end of ridge. Ground storey with central front door (modern) under flat hood on brackets with a pair of 6 pane sashes in exposed boxes left and right.. Evidently an open hall at the north when first built laterally divided in the later C16, with storeyed service in south bay where evidence of first floor and buttery partition survives in the bar room.
Listing NGR: TL9278428129
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 417800
- 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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