Premises Occupied By JG Forster and Ye Olde Horse Shoe Inn
PREMISES OCCUPIED BY JG FORSTER AND YE OLDE HORSE SHOE INN, 3 AND 4, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1279274
- Date first listed:
- 05-Jun-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Premises Occupied By JG Forster and Ye Olde Horse Shoe Inn
- Statutory Address:
- PREMISES OCCUPIED BY JG FORSTER AND YE OLDE HORSE SHOE INN, 3 AND 4, CHURCH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1279274
- Date first listed:
- 05-Jun-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Premises Occupied By JG Forster and Ye Olde Horse Shoe Inn
- Statutory Address 1:
- PREMISES OCCUPIED BY JG FORSTER AND YE OLDE HORSE SHOE INN, 3 AND 4, CHURCH STREET
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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:
- PREMISES OCCUPIED BY JG FORSTER AND YE OLDE HORSE SHOE INN, 3 AND 4, CHURCH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 16648 35581
Details
CROOK AND WILLINGTON CHURCH STREET NZ 13 NE (South side) Crook 24/23 Nos. 3 and 4 (premises occupied by J.G. Forster and Ye Olde Horse Shoe Inn) GV II
Shop and public house. Late C18 with mid-C19 shop and public house fronts; public house dated 1822 for C EI I over door. Shop sandstone rubble with ashlar quoins; public house painted render with painted ashlar dressings. Welsh slate roof with brick chimneys. 2 storeys, 3 wide bays and left extension of one storey, one bay. Shop at left has pilasters and entablature framing hardboard- covered door with 2-pane overlight; shop window to left of door has 2 rows of 5 panes. Paired sashes on first floor have rendered jambs and painted projecting stone sill. Eaves gutter board. Public house at right has low 2-panelled door to right of centre in raised stone surround with stone-bracketed moulded hood EI over lintel incised C 1822 I. At left are top-hung_casements in style of late C19 sashes; at right one wide and one narrow window, separated by a short pilaster and framed by pilasters and fascia with fruit-carved brackets. Cornice supports first-floor canted bay. Pierced 2-panel shutters to left ground-floor window. Roof over 2 left bays with left-and central banded chimneys; roof of lower pitch over right bay has right end chimney. Left extension has pent roof; altered from 2-storey building. Public house included for group value.
Listing NGR: NZ1664835581
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 403772
- 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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