British Lion Public House

10 AND 11, ESTCOURT STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1249474
Date first listed:
19-Sept-1972
List Entry Name:
British Lion Public House
Statutory Address:
10 AND 11, ESTCOURT STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1249474
Date first listed:
19-Sept-1972
List Entry Name:
British Lion Public House
Statutory Address 1:
10 AND 11, ESTCOURT STREET
Statutory Address 2:
BRITISH LION PUBLIC HOUSE, 9, ESTCOURT 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:
10 AND 11, ESTCOURT STREET
Statutory Address:
BRITISH LION PUBLIC HOUSE, 9, ESTCOURT STREET

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

District:
Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Devizes
National Grid Reference:
SU0082861462

Details

1.
1042 ESTCOURT STREET
(North Side)

No 9
(British Lion Public House).
Nos 10 & 11
ST 0061 3a/237

II GV


2.
Early C18. 3 storeys red brick rough cast painted fronts. No 11 rendered
painted. Plain rendered strips flanking and dividing. British Lion Public
House has 3 windows, Nos 10 and 11 have 2: sashes, glazing bars intact,
set in moulded flush frames, thin sills. Ground floor of British Lion:
to left hand chamfered edge surround to yard entry with double doors. 2
C19 canted bays of 3 lights, sash, later glazing bars, shallow moulded cornices,
rendered coursed bases. Central 6 panel door in architrave surround, flat
hood-cornice on cut brackets. Ground floor of Nos 10 and 11 circa 1900
shop front, 2 plate glass windows splayed in to door, fascia flanked by
fluted capped brackets. Modern doorway to right. Gable end pantile roof.

Nos 1 to 16 (consec) form a group.

Listing NGR: SU0082861462

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
431603
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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