Ferry Inn

FERRY INN, MAIN ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1270746
Date first listed:
13-Dec-1949
List Entry Name:
Ferry Inn
Statutory Address:
FERRY INN, MAIN ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1270746
Date first listed:
13-Dec-1949
Date of most recent amendment:
30-Nov-1995
List Entry Name:
Ferry Inn
Statutory Address 1:
FERRY INN, MAIN ROAD

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
FERRY INN, MAIN ROAD

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

District:
City of Nottingham (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
SK 56746 37821

Details

NOTTINGHAM

SK53NE MAIN ROAD, Wilford 646-1/7/818 (West side) 13/12/49 Ferry Inn (Formerly Listed as: MAIN ROAD, Wilford Ferry Inn (formerly listed in the Urban District of West Bridgford))

II

Public house. Late C17 and early C18, with alterations and additions C19 and C20. Brick painted and rendered, with substantial remains of timber framing, and slate and plain tile roofs. Rendered plinth. The building comprises 2 houses and an adjoining outbuilding, joined end to end. Central range, C17 and C18, 2 storeys, 2 window range, has brick front with dentillated eaves. Low pitched slate roof with gable stack. Renewed segment-arched casement, 4-lights, with shutters. Above, 2 glazing bar casements, 3-lights, late C18. At the rear, 3 irregular bays of box framing with diagonal braces and mid rail, and brick nogging. Right range, late C17, has gabled and hipped plain tile roof with an off-centre ridge stack. Opposite the stack, a gabled porch, mid C20, with a small window to left and a Yorkshire sash, 3-lights, to right. Beyond, single storey additions, mid C20. Above, to right, a C19 casement. Former outbuilding, to left, early C19, has a hipped slate roof. On the street side, a segment-arched loft door. INTERIOR has exposed joists and lintel in the centre range, and span beams and a single post, possibly resited, to the right. This building may have served as the rectory before c1720. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Nottinghamshire: London: 1979-: 272; Wilford Parish Magazine Oct 1992: Rev. P Newton).

Listing NGR: SK5674637821

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
457491
Legacy System:
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Sources

Books and journals
Williamson, E, The Buildings of England: Nottinghamshire, (1979), 272
Wilford Parish Magazine in Wilford Parish Magazine, (1992)

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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