Hinds Head Hotel
HINDS HEAD HOTEL, CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1312900
- Date first listed:
- 25-Mar-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Hinds Head Hotel
- Statutory Address:
- HINDS HEAD HOTEL, CHURCH LANE
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- Date:
- 2001-08-28
- Reference:
- IOE01/04519/29
- Rights:
- © Mr Barry F. White. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1312900
- Date first listed:
- 25-Mar-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Hinds Head Hotel
- Statutory Address 1:
- HINDS HEAD HOTEL, CHURCH LANE
- Statutory Address 2:
- HINDS HEAD HOTEL, HIGH 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:
- HINDS HEAD HOTEL, CHURCH LANE
- Statutory Address:
- HINDS HEAD HOTEL, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Windsor and Maidenhead (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Bray
- National Grid Reference:
- SU9017579607
Details
SU 9079
22/13
25.3.55
BRAY
HIGH STREET
(north side)
Bray
Hinds Head Hotel
G.V.
II
Hall house, now public house and restaurant. Late C15, altered C18, C19 and late C20. Timber
frame encased in painted brick, old tile gabled roof. U-plan; former hall of 2 or 3 framed bays
with crosswing of 3 framed bays on west and a 4 framed bay crosswing on east which was formerly
jettied on south and east. 2 storeys and 2 storeys with attic. Tall chimney with clay pots on
left. Entrance (south) front: 2 gabled crosswings projecting in front of centre section. Left
hand gable of 2 bays. String at first floor level. 2-light leaded casement windows on each floor
with segmental heads; attic floor window blocked. Plank entrance door between 2 brick buttresses.
Right hand gable of one bay. String at first floor level. Sash windows with glazing bars, that on
the ground floor with panelled shutters and blocked opening on each side. Centre section: 2 sash
windows with glazing bars on first floor; similar on ground floor and with panelled shutters. C19
4-panel entrance door on right with top panels glazed. Return front on Church Lane: irregular.
Black painted plinth, plat band at first floor. Two, 2-light leaded casement windows on first
floor, one sash window with glazing bars on left. 4-panel with plain pedimented wooden rood on
right of window and two 2-light leaded casement windows with plank shutters on right of door.
Interior: timber frame visible on first floor of good quality and large sections. Redundant crown
post roof with clasped side purlins and large curved arch and windbraces. Hinds Head Hotel
occupies a prominent corner site in the centre of the village. The C20 flat roof extension
adjoining on the left is of no special interest.
Listing NGR: SU9017579607
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 41053
- 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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