Olde Blue Bell Public House
OLDE BLUE BELL PUBLIC HOUSE, 114, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1279818
- Date first listed:
- 27-Sept-1979
- List Entry Name:
- Olde Blue Bell Public House
- Statutory Address:
- OLDE BLUE BELL PUBLIC HOUSE, 114, CHURCH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1279818
- Date first listed:
- 27-Sept-1979
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 20-Dec-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Olde Blue Bell Public House
- Statutory Address 1:
- OLDE BLUE BELL PUBLIC HOUSE, 114, CHURCH STREET
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:
- OLDE BLUE BELL PUBLIC HOUSE, 114, CHURCH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- Preston (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 54413 29497
Details
PRESTON
SD5429SW CHURCH STREET 941-1/12/76 (South side) 27/09/79 No.114 Olde Blue Bell Public House (Formerly Listed as: CHURCH STREET (South side) The Blue Bell Inn)
II
Public house, with former brewhouse linked to rear. Probably earlier C18, altered and enlarged in C19; altered. Brick in English garden wall bond, painted white, on plinth painted black; slate roof. Double-depth formed by single-depth front range with parallel addition to rear. Three low storeys and 3 bays (but with only 2 windows at 1st floor), symmetrical; the ground floor has a central round-headed doorway with pilastered surround and plain fanlight, protected by a large semi-circular hood on brackets, and wide rectangular 3-light casement windows with some early C20 stained glass; the 1st floor has 2 vertical-rectangular 2-light casement widows, and the 2nd floor has 3 square 2-light casements (all these windows with raised sills). Gable chimneys. INTERIOR altered. Linked to the rear is a small C19 brewhouse of red brick in English garden wall bond, rectangular in plan, 2 low storeys, with a circular pitching hole and a 4-pane sash at 1st floor (ground floor altered), and a gable chimney.
Listing NGR: SD5441429498
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 391954
- 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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