The Methuen Arms Hotel
THE METHUEN ARMS HOTEL, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1363984
- Date first listed:
- 20-Dec-1960
- List Entry Name:
- The Methuen Arms Hotel
- Statutory Address:
- THE METHUEN ARMS HOTEL, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1363984
- Date first listed:
- 20-Dec-1960
- List Entry Name:
- The Methuen Arms Hotel
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE METHUEN ARMS 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:
- THE METHUEN ARMS HOTEL, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Corsham
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 87188 70252
Details
ST 8770 CORSHAM HIGH STREET
(East side)
1637/5/166
The Methuen Arms Hotel
20.12.1960
GV II
Inn, front range early C19, rear wing C17 and C18. Front is of coursed rubble stone with hipped stone-tiled roof and end stacks. Three storeys, 3-window range of sashes in flush surrounds. Raised ashlar angle piers, first floor sill-course and moulded cornice, broken forward over piers. Central door in architrave with keystone set in large Roman Doric porch with paired columns to
front and pilaster responds. Three-window, 2 storey rear wing to Lacock Road with sashes and centre arched doorway with raised imposts and keystone, and chequer pattern [apparently a sign of a tavern] to the pilasters. Range beyond is mostly C17, much altered. First section has dormer gable and 3-light ovolo-moulded window over pair of sashes. Second section is 2-storey with datestone 'NNIN 1650 CW 1742', four first floor 2-light ovolo-moulded windows, 3 original, one C20 and ground floor C20 window, door, and 2 small ventilation openings with 2-light cyma-moulded window between. Third section has 4 rebuilt dormer gables with mullion windows, one original, and 4 small ventilation openings below. End
section has mullion window in east gable. North side to court and rear of main range mostly, rebuilt but some mullion windows surviving. The inn is on the site of a house called Winter's Court held by Nott family from C15 to 1732 when it passed to Webber family. Purchased by P. Methuen 1779. House was an inn in 1608, recorded as the Red Lion in 1637 and was drawn by Buckler in 1805 (Devizes Museum) and presumably rebuilt c1830.
Listing NGR: ST8718870252
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 315193
- 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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