THE MOLESWORTH ARMS HOTEL

THE MOLESWORTH ARMS HOTEL, 38, MOLESWORTH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1327989
Date first listed:: 03-Nov-1970
List Entry Name:: THE MOLESWORTH ARMS HOTEL
Statutory Address:: THE MOLESWORTH ARMS HOTEL, 38, MOLESWORTH STREET

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Date:: 2001-03-23
Reference:: IOE01/03787/17
Rights:: © Mr Charles A Perry. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1327989
Date first listed:: 03-Nov-1970
List Entry Name:: THE MOLESWORTH ARMS HOTEL
Statutory Address 1:: THE MOLESWORTH ARMS HOTEL, 38, MOLESWORTH 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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Location

Statutory Address:: THE MOLESWORTH ARMS HOTEL, 38, MOLESWORTH STREET

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

District:: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Wadebridge
National Grid Reference:: SW9890972367

Details

WADEBRIDGE MOLESWORTH STREET (north side), SW 9872-9972 Wadebridge No. 38, The Molesworth Arms Hotel 9/249 3.11.70 GV ll

Coaching Inn, now public house. Circa late C17. Stuccoed, rendered and painted stone rubble with chamfered quoins. Bitumen coated rag slate roof with gable end on right and hipped end on left. Brick axial stack on front slope towards left and brick end stack on right. Plan: The inn has been considerably altered and extended in the C19 and C20 and the original plan is uncertain. Possibly originally of single depth, 2 room plan with wide arch through building providing access for coaches through to stables and coach house to rear. Circa mid C18 extension of 1 room plan to rear left, further extended in early and mid C19 forming an overall 'L' shaped plan. The inn was also extended into the adjoining property on the right (qv 36 Molesworth Street). In circa early to mid C20 the wide archway through the inn was blocked off to form a vestibule and reception area. At time of inspection (1986) the stables and coach house to rear were in the process of considerable alteration and conversion to domestic use. Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 5 window front. Late C17 open porch with 2 granite doric columns and moulded cornice. C20 part glazed door. 2 wide C20 24-pane sashes to left and C20 door to right. First floor with 2 early C19 and 3 late C19 or C20 12-pane sashes. Interior: Much altered with some remains of C18 and C19 panelling reset. C19 granite lintel to fireplace in rear left hand wing. C19 stair with stick balusters and wreathed rail.

Listing NGR: SW9890972367

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Legacy System number:: 67875
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.