Nesscliffe Hotel
NESSCLIFFE HOTEL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1366938
- Date first listed:
- 27-Nov-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Nesscliffe Hotel
- Statutory Address:
- NESSCLIFFE HOTEL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1366938
- Date first listed:
- 27-Nov-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Nesscliffe Hotel
- Statutory Address 1:
- NESSCLIFFE HOTEL
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:
- NESSCLIFFE HOTEL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Great Ness
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 38354 19136
Details
SJ 31 NE; 4/130
GREAT NESS C.P.,
NESSCLIFFE,
Nesscliffe Hotel
II
Hotel. Early C19, with minor late C19 alterations and additions.
Red brick with slate roof. Three storeys over basement. Plinth with
chamfered stone top, dentil brick eaves cornice and parapeted gable ends
with rounded stone copings and shaped kneelers. External brick end
stacks. 4+1 bays; boxed glazing bar sashes (12- and 16-pane) with
painted stone cills and gauged-brick heads (some windows without flat
arches). Blind second-floor window in second bay from left. Left-hand
first-floor bay blank with remains of painted sign. Central late C19
brick porch with chamfered plinth, moulded-brick corners, moulded-brick
and stone cornice and pierced terracotta parapet with coping and panelled
square dies. Scalloped-brick segmental archway with keystone and segmental-headed
side windows. Central half-glazed door with 3-part
rectangular overlight and moulded frame. Steps up to porch from left and
right. Basement door to left. Two-storey wing set-back to right
with hipped roof, glazing bar sash to first floor and C20 casement to ground
floor. Right-hand return front of two bays, with glazing bar sashes. Two-
storey red sandstone wing to rear with integral brick end stack and glazing
bar sashes. Interior not inspected. The hotel was a staging post on the
Holyhead Road, improved by Thomas Telford in the 15 years after 1817.
Listing NGR: SJ3835419136
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 259195
- 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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