The Free Trade Inn

THE FREE TRADE INN, 73 AND 75

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1264036
Date first listed:
04-Oct-1994
List Entry Name:
The Free Trade Inn
Statutory Address:
THE FREE TRADE INN, 73 AND 75
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1264036
Date first listed:
04-Oct-1994
List Entry Name:
The Free Trade Inn
Statutory Address 1:
THE FREE TRADE INN, 73 AND 75

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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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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Location

Statutory Address:
THE FREE TRADE INN, 73 AND 75

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

District:
Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Berwick-upon-Tweed
National Grid Reference:
NT 99546 53294

Details

SCHEDULE The following building shall be added:- NT 9953 BERWICK UPON TWEED

622-/11/10003 CASTLEGATE (west side) Nos. 73 and 75 The Free Trade Inn II Public house and shop. 1847 with alterations c1900. Ashlar with ashlar dressings and slate roof with raised gables and kneelers plus 2 brick gable stacks. Rusticated ground floor, moulded first and second floor bands, chamfered eaves and raised quoins. 3 storey, 3 window front. Ground floor has central passage entrance with to left an altered C19 shopfront, and to the right a pub front, c1900, with panelled pilasters, fascia board, glazed tiles and stained glass windows divided 3:1, with to the right a recessed 4-panel door. Above two 16-pane sashes with between an ornate iron pub sign and to the right a sign board, beyond to the left a plain sash. Above again three 16-pane sashes. Interior of the Free Trade Inn has an entrance passage with tongue and groove plank panelling and a series of 4-panel doors. Bar to right has similar panelling throughout with a side screen also plank panelled with glazed upper panels and dividing pilasters with moulded tops and ball finials, this screen is supported by curved iron braces. The bar itself is panelled with dividing fluted pilasters. 2 fitted wooden benches and a moulded fire surround. This building is listed because it retains a good Edwardian pub front and a remarkably well preserved pub interior.

Listing NGR: NT9954653294

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
428935
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.

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