FORMER KENNET ARMS

FORMER KENNET ARMS, 2, PELL STREET

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1302886
Date first listed:: 14-Dec-1978
List Entry Name:: FORMER KENNET ARMS
Statutory Address:: FORMER KENNET ARMS, 2, PELL STREET

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Date:: 2001-05-28
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1302886
Date first listed:: 14-Dec-1978
List Entry Name:: FORMER KENNET ARMS
Statutory Address 1:: FORMER KENNET ARMS, 2, PELL STREET

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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:: FORMER KENNET ARMS, 2, PELL STREET

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

District:: Reading (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SU 71479 72646

Details

SU 7172 13/546 5128

PELL STREET No. 2 (Former Kennet Arms)

(Formerly listed as No 2 (The Kennet Arms))

II

Late C18 or early C19, possibly built in connection with the Kennet and Avon canal. 3 storeys, 2x2 bays. Red and grey chequered brick with stucco quoins; the twin-gabled Pell Street elevation now painted, and the Elgar Road elevation stuccoed. Multi-pane sash windows to first and second floors. Tiled M-shaped roof with brick block cornice and central stack. Ground floor has pub front of with pulvinated fascia, panelled doors, window joinery and plaster scrolls at corners, all of c.1900. 2-storey rear extension to Elgar Road is of similar date.

Listing NGR: SU7147972646

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Legacy System number:: 39119
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.