The Fountain Inn Public House
52, OWEN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1287198
- Date first listed:
- 10-Feb-1982
- List Entry Name:
- The Fountain Inn Public House
- Statutory Address:
- 52, OWEN STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1287198
- Date first listed:
- 10-Feb-1982
- List Entry Name:
- The Fountain Inn Public House
- Statutory Address 1:
- 52, OWEN STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- THE FOUNTAIN INN PUBLIC HOUSE, OWEN 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:
- 52, OWEN STREET
- Statutory Address:
- THE FOUNTAIN INN PUBLIC HOUSE, OWEN STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Sandwell (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 95353 92320
Details
SANDWELL MB OWEN STREET SO 99 SE Tipton
4/124 The Fountain Inn Public House and No 52 10.2.82 II
Public house. Early C19. Brick, rendered at front and painted at rear, with slate roof. Two storeys, two bays. Facade has boxed sashes with glazing bars on first floor. On the ground floor is a timber public house front, probably later C19, with pilasters and an entablature, and with a narrow window at the right, possibly replacing a door. The doorway, with a mid-C20 surround, is between the two main ground floor windows. The facade overlaps with No 52 to the right, which has a shop front on the ground floor and two boxed sashes with glazing bars on the first floor. Chimneys on gables of Fountain Inn, and to right of No 52, which has a lower roof line. At the rear are two wings, with brick dentil eaves and with some sashed windows with glazing bars. From 1836 the Inn served as the headquarters of William Perry, the "Tipton Slasher", boxing champion of England 1850-57. Internally the Fountain Inn extends above part of No 52.
Listing NGR: SO9535392320
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 219336
- 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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