Old Falcon Inn

OLD FALCON INN, CHURCH STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1355315
Date first listed:
01-Feb-1967
List Entry Name:
Old Falcon Inn
Statutory Address:
OLD FALCON INN, CHURCH STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1355315
Date first listed:
01-Feb-1967
List Entry Name:
Old Falcon Inn
Statutory Address 1:
OLD FALCON INN, CHURCH STREET

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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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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
OLD FALCON INN, CHURCH STREET

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

County:
Warwickshire
District:
Stratford-on-Avon (District Authority)
Parish:
Bidford-on-Avon
National Grid Reference:
SP 10088 51913

Details

SP1051 BIDFORD-ON-AVON CHURCH STREET (North side) 10/29 Old Falcon Inn 01/02/67

- II*

Former Inn. Mid and late C16. Lias in alternating wide and narrow courses, limestone dressings. Continuous stone drip-mould above 1st floor. Timber framing with lath and plaster infill to one gable and rear. Tile roof; large stone chimney stacks with renewed brick shafts. L-plan. High street frontage: 2-storey mid C16 four-window range has timber framed cross gable with leaded casement. Stone mullioned windows throught. Late C20 French window on ground floor. Church street frontage:2-window range and late C16 three storey and attic 2 window range with 2 symmetrical gables. Door has 4-centred arch, moulded architrave and hood mould. 1st floor has two 4-light windows with transom. 3-light windows on 2nd floor, 2-light in gables. Wood and lead gutters. Rear wholly of exposed timber framing. Interior altered: straight flight staircase. Some exposed timber framing, with small amount of wattle infill surviving in the attic. (Victoria Country History of Warwickshire Vol III p.54; Buildings of England: Warwickshire, pp.92-93).

Listing NGR: SP1008851913

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Legacy System number:
305041
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Doubleday, AH, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Warwick, (1945), 54
Pevsner, N, Wedgwood, A, The Buildings of England: Warwickshire, (1966), 92-93

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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.

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