The Bishop and Wolf Public House
THE BISHOP AND WOLF PUBLIC HOUSE, SILVER STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1328843
- Date first listed:
- 14-Dec-1992
- List Entry Name:
- The Bishop and Wolf Public House
- Statutory Address:
- THE BISHOP AND WOLF PUBLIC HOUSE, SILVER STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1328843
- Date first listed:
- 14-Dec-1992
- List Entry Name:
- The Bishop and Wolf Public House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE BISHOP AND WOLF PUBLIC HOUSE, SILVER 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:
- THE BISHOP AND WOLF PUBLIC HOUSE, SILVER STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Isles of Scilly (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- St. Mary's
- National Grid Reference:
- SV 90268 10517
Details
ST. MARY'S
SV9010 SILVER STREET, Hugh Town 1358-0/8/71 (South side) The Bishop and Wolf Public House
GV II
House, now public house. Built c1700 for Thomas Ekins, first land agent of the Godolphin Estate, resident on the Islands from 1683. Coursed granite rubble, with front of dressed and coursed granite; gabled scantled slate roof; granite end stacks. Originally of central-staircase plan, remodellled C20. 2 storeys with attics; 5-window first-floor range. Ground floor has full-length bay window with pilasters dividing glazing-bar windows and doorway to right, by Geoffrey Drewitt 1952. First floor has keyed lintels over horned 6/6-pane sashes. Two hipped roof dormers with slate-hung cheeks and similar sashes. Interior: ground-floor remodelled mid C20. One of the earliest surviving houses on the islands and of historical interest as the house of the first land agent. (P Laws: The Buildings of Scilly: Redruth: 1980-: 14).
Listing NGR: SV9026810517
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 62510
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Laws, P, The Buildings of Scilly, (1980), 14
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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