The Elephant At the Market
The Elephant At the Market, 8 Market Place, Newbury, RG14 5BD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1290412
- Date first listed:
- 02-Sept-1983
- List Entry Name:
- The Elephant At the Market
- Statutory Address:
- The Elephant At the Market, 8 Market Place, Newbury, RG14 5BD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1290412
- Date first listed:
- 02-Sept-1983
- List Entry Name:
- The Elephant At the Market
- Statutory Address 1:
- The Elephant At the Market, 8 Market Place, Newbury, RG14 5BD
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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:
- The Elephant At the Market, 8 Market Place, Newbury, RG14 5BD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- West Berkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Newbury
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 47199 67050
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 28 October 2022 to amend the name and address and to reformat the text to current standards
SU 4767 SW
6/121
MARKET PLACE (east side)
No 8 (The Elephant At the Market)
(Formerly listed as No 8 (Queen's Hotel))
GV
II
Mid C19 refronting of older inn, formerly "The Three Tuns" in the early C19 and "the Elephant and Castle" before that. Three storeys. Five windows. Stucco front with bracketted cornice, end parapet with segmental centre. Plain bands at floor levels. Architraved sash windows; ground floor with four-light window with cast iron colonnette mullions and segmental heads to lights. Entrance with pilasters and segmental pediment. Carriage entrance at south end.
(Newbury Buildings Past and Present (1973) 45).
Listing NGR: SU4721267051
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 395181
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Newbury Buildings Past and Present, (1973), 45
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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