Craven Arms Hotel

CRAVEN ARMS HOTEL

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1269928
Date first listed:
12-Nov-1954
List Entry Name:
Craven Arms Hotel
Statutory Address:
CRAVEN ARMS HOTEL
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1269928
Date first listed:
12-Nov-1954
List Entry Name:
Craven Arms Hotel
Statutory Address 1:
CRAVEN ARMS HOTEL

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:
CRAVEN ARMS HOTEL

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

District:
Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Craven Arms
National Grid Reference:
SO 43268 82739

Details

CRAVEN ARMS

SO48SW Craven Arms Hotel 1943-1/5/112 12/11/54 (Formerly Listed as: STOKESAY CRAVEN ARMS Craven Arms Hotel)

GV II

Coaching inn, now hotel. Late C18 or early C19. Brick; render; hipped Welsh slate roof; 2 dentilled brick stacks to rear. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; 3-window range: 6/6 sashes with shutters and sill bands in rendered bays between brick pilasters with stone bands and moulded capitals; ashlar band to eaves. Central entrance: panelled double doors with lattice-glazing, and painted fanlight with glazing bars, under wood open porch with modillioned hood and entablature with triglyphs and guttae, on Roman Doric columns; flanked by similar sashes. Left returned side: 4 similar sashes under gauged brick flat arches; ashlar band to eaves. Right returned side: tier of similar sashes; returned band. Later wing to right rear: hipped Welsh slate roof; 2 brick stacks; plain sashes under gauged brick flat arches; brick pilasters; returned side has 4 tripartite windows with 1/1: 3/3: 1/1 sashes under segmental arches; 3/3 sashes; stone-lined eaves; panelled door with side lights, under moulded wood hood on scrolled brackets; to left a 6/6 sash; to right a late C19 lean-to with 2/2 sashes. INTERIOR: not inspected.



Listing NGR: SO4326882739

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Legacy System number:
460261
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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