Queens Arms Hotel
QUEENS ARMS HOTEL, ASHBOURNE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1244404
- Date first listed:
- 13-Jul-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Queens Arms Hotel
- Statutory Address:
- QUEENS ARMS HOTEL, ASHBOURNE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1244404
- Date first listed:
- 13-Jul-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Queens Arms Hotel
- Statutory Address 1:
- QUEENS ARMS HOTEL, ASHBOURNE 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:
- QUEENS ARMS HOTEL, ASHBOURNE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Staffordshire
- District:
- East Staffordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Rocester
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 10951 39459
Details
The following building shall be added:
SK 1039 ROCESTER ASHBOURNE ROAD
404- /10/10000 Queens Arms Hotel
II Public House. Late C18, incorporating elements of an earlier house, and with Cl9 alterations and additions. Red brick, rising from a shallow stone plinth laid to Flemish bond, with gable chimneys with ornamental caps and Staffordshire blue tile roof coverings. Linear plan, with central entry, and with parallel rear ranges enclosing a narrow yard. Front elevation (south); 2 storeys, 3 bays, with central doorway below a shallow bracketed canopy. Wide storey band, with moulded surround to inn sign set above doorway, as continuation to door surround below. 4-panel door to entrance, flanked by stacked 3-light casement windows beneath segmentally-arched heads. Eaves band concealed by gutters, but clearly expressed on west gable, which has a blocked ground floor opening and a small 2-light attic casement. Beyond north-west corner of gable, a 2-bay range with a central ridge stack and a gablet above each first floor 2-light window. Interior; ground floor alterations to form public house bar areas, but with heavy spine beams and flat joists. Late C19 surrounds to hearths. First floor rooms with beamed ceilings, and one ovolo-moulded spine beam. Attic with lime-ash floor, and single purlin roof Wide-boarded doors and a fragment of late C17 oak panelling. A relatively unaltered example of late C18 vernacular house, which incorporates elements of an earlier dwelling, and which retains much of its early plan, despite its present use as a public house.
Listing NGR: SK1095139459
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 449461
- 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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