The Bear Hotel
THE BEAR HOTEL, 12, MARKET PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268065
- Date first listed:
- 22-Jun-1978
- List Entry Name:
- The Bear Hotel
- Statutory Address:
- THE BEAR HOTEL, 12, MARKET PLACE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268065
- Date first listed:
- 22-Jun-1978
- List Entry Name:
- The Bear Hotel
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE BEAR HOTEL, 12, MARKET PLACE
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 BEAR HOTEL, 12, MARKET PLACE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Chippenham
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 92180 73179
Details
CHIPPENHAM
ST9273SW MARKET PLACE 930-1/10/94 (South side) 22/06/78 No.12 The Bear Hotel
GV II
Hotel. c1850 remodelling of earlier property, with some C18 fabric to rear. Coursed Limestone rubble with freestone dressings, stone slate roof, brick stacks with octagonal ashlar shafts to gable ends. Tudor Revival style. Double-depth plan with rear wings flanking courtyard. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attics; symmetrical 3-window range. 3 forward-facing gables with tall cone-and-ball finials are articulated by full-height semi-octagonal buttresses with similar finials above the linking parapet. Hoodmoulds to paired Tudor-arched sash windows with switch tracery tops; cinquefoil heads to windows above the door. 2 canted bays with hipped off-set stone roofs to the ground floor. The central projecting porch has columns similar to the buttresses supporting wide Tudor arches to front and sides. A stone bear stands on a plinth to the centre. The sash windows above the porch have cinquefoil heads. The right return, also in the Market Place, is 4-window range with forward-facing gables to each end, that to the left with stack to the apex and entrance below, that to the right with a finial and quatrefoil over a 2-light window to the 2nd floor and one of 3-lights to the 1st floor over a hoodmould to a gateway. INTERIOR: dogleg central staircase with turned balusters and C19 joinery including 4-panel doors. HISTORY: a house on the site called Orwell House, originally built in the mid C18 by John Provis, was still in occupation in 1812.
Listing NGR: ST9218073179
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 462291
- 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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