The Plough Inn and Garage
THE PLOUGH INN AND GARAGE, CHAPEL STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1366691
- Date first listed:
- 10-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- The Plough Inn and Garage
- Statutory Address:
- THE PLOUGH INN AND GARAGE, CHAPEL STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1366691
- Date first listed:
- 10-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- The Plough Inn and Garage
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE PLOUGH INN AND GARAGE, CHAPEL 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 PLOUGH INN AND GARAGE, CHAPEL STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Pontesbury
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 40025 05863
Details
SJ 40 NW PONTESBURY C.P. CHAPEL STREET (west side) 4/169 - The Plough Inn and Garage
- II
House, now inn and garage offices. Probably C15, extended in early C17 with later additions and alterations, principally of early C19 and mid-C20. Timber framed, partly of cruck construction, and brick, now largely roughcast, plain tile roof. Open hall of 2 unequal bays aligned north-east to south-west extended in early C17 by addition of a box-framed bay to north-east; 2 brick- built bays added to south-west and eaves of whole raised in early C19. 2 storeys; dentilled eaves cornice; framing: exposed to C17 addition, 3 square panels from cill to wall-plate with V-struts from the collar; irregular fenestration, six C20 casements below eaves with one small fixed-light window to right and 5 late C19 and C20 casements to ground floor; entrances through C20 doors to left and right; prominent ridge stack roughly central and end stack to left. Interior: parts of 3 true cruck trusses with tie beams and collars survive, central one being best preserved, all with apexes destroyed; timber framed cross-wall (later) on ground floor beneath central truss. V.C.H. VIII (1968), p.252; Madge Moran, personal communication.
Listing NGR: SJ4002505863
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 259472
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Shropshire, (1968), 252
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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