The Hood Arms
THE HOOD ARMS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1345687
- Date first listed:
- 22-May-1969
- List Entry Name:
- The Hood Arms
- Statutory Address:
- THE HOOD ARMS
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- Date:
- 2002-08-06
- Reference:
- IOE01/08505/21
- Rights:
- © Mr John Robins. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1345687
- Date first listed:
- 22-May-1969
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 16-Nov-1984
- List Entry Name:
- The Hood Arms
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE HOOD ARMS
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 HOOD ARMS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Kilve
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 14903 42916
Details
ST14SW KILVE CP The Hood Arms 5/113 (previously listed as The Hood Arms Hotel) 22.5.69 GV II
Inn. C17, enlarged early C19. Render grooved as ashlar over rubble, slate roofs overhanging eaves, soffit boards on right hand earlier block, lower independently roofed left block, decorative ridge tiles, brick stacks. 2-storeys, 4:6 bays; 12 panes sash windows first floor, groundfloor left block only a square leaded carriageway entrance, to right 16 pane sash window and tripartite sash window flanking entrance, C20 window and two 8 pane sash windows in outer bays flanking second entrance. C20 plank doors with C20 lean-to slate roofed, rendered porches open on right returns with C20 glazing bar windows. Extensively altered internally. There was an inn at Kilve 1689, and another in 1736; this was called the Chough and Anchor 1822-7 and by 1841 the Hood Arms. (VCH Somerset, Vol. 5 forthcoming; photograph in NMR).
Listing NGR: ST1490342916
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 265162
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Dunning, R W, The Victoria History of the County of Somerset, (1985)
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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