The Nags Head Public House
THE NAGS HEAD PUBLIC HOUSE, NEW PARK STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1251674
- Date first listed:
- 09-Apr-1954
- List Entry Name:
- The Nags Head Public House
- Statutory Address:
- THE NAGS HEAD PUBLIC HOUSE, NEW PARK STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1251674
- Date first listed:
- 09-Apr-1954
- List Entry Name:
- The Nags Head Public House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE NAGS HEAD PUBLIC HOUSE, NEW PARK 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.
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 NAGS HEAD PUBLIC HOUSE, NEW PARK 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:
- SU 00414 61655
Details
SU 0061
3A/170
DEVIZES
NEW PARK STREET
The Nags Head Public House
9.4.54
GV
II
Public House. Mid/late C18, with C19 extensions. Colourwashed Flemish bond brick, slate-hung to left-hand gable, with chamfered stone quoins; early/mid C19 brick extension to left; extension to rear right of coursed stone blocks; hipped Welsh slate roofs with brick end and ridge stacks.
L plan. Three-storey main block. Symmetrical five-window front to Snuff Street. C18 panelled door in plat surround with carved brackets to flat hood. 6/6-pane sashes set in raised architraves to ground floor (with cyma-moulded edges on left) and moulded first-floor architraves, the central slightly projecting bay with key and impost blocks to semi-circular arched architrave; centre-hung six-pane casements in plat surrounds to second floor windows set on moulded string course. Similar fenestration to two-window right return, including similar arched first-floor windows and paired ground-floor windows. Three similar sashes to rear.
Early/mid C19 one-storey 2-window extension with 6/6-pane sashes to left of Snuff Street elevation. Two-storey five- window range wing to right of New Park Street elevation, heightened and remodelled in brick in mid C19; horned and unhorned 8/8-pane sashes, two inserted double entries to right and carved brackets to flat hood over C19 door on left.
Interior: C19 panelled doors. Two mid/late C18 chimneypieces to first floor with mid C19 cast-iron grates. Chamfered beams to C18 range.
Listing NGR: SU0041461655
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 434433
- 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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