George Hotel No. 3 and Attached Former Stable Block
GEORGE HOTEL, 43, BAILEY STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1367305
- Date first listed:
- 15-May-1986
- List Entry Name:
- George Hotel No. 3 and Attached Former Stable Block
- Statutory Address:
- GEORGE HOTEL, 43, BAILEY STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1367305
- Date first listed:
- 15-May-1986
- List Entry Name:
- George Hotel No. 3 and Attached Former Stable Block
- Statutory Address 1:
- GEORGE HOTEL, 43, BAILEY STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- NO. 3 AND ATTACHED FORMER STABLE BLOCK, BAILEY HEAD
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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.
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:
- GEORGE HOTEL, 43, BAILEY STREET
- Statutory Address:
- NO. 3 AND ATTACHED FORMER STABLE BLOCK, BAILEY HEAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Oswestry
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 29086 29751
Details
SJ 2929 NW OSWESTRY C.P. BAILEY STREET (west side)
14/21 No. 43 (George Hotel) - GV II Includes No. 3, Bailey Head and attached former stable block. House, now inn and shop. Early C18 extended 1742 (datestone) with later additions and alterations. Purplish red brick (painted to former stables) with rusticated angle quoins; plain tile roofs with coped verges on stone kneelers. 2 storeys and attics; wooden modillion eaves cornice to front and moulded cornice to right return; 7-window front, 4-paned sashes in C18 openings with plain lintels and projecting moulded keystones, C20 gabled eaves dormer to far left; late C19 inn front, re-modelled late C20,retains moulded entablature supported on decorated console brackets but partly infilled with purplish brown brick and new top-hung casements inserted, 4-panel door to left and 6-panel door to centre with blocked segmental-headed opening (probably C18) between 2 sections of C19 inn front; prominent ridge stacks to left and right of centre. Right gable end has datestone "1742" with initials above plastered over; late C19 doorcase to right (former entrance to No. 1, Bailey Head) now with late C20 top-hung casement inserted. Right return (forming No. 3, Bailey Head) probably slightly earlier than main section, see straight joint beneath tall ridge stack to left; 3 windows, thick glazing bar sashes (blind and painted in imitation to centre) with plain stone lintels and projecting moulded keystones, C19 hip-roofed dormers in bottom part of roof slope to left and right; C19 shop front and console- bracketed doorcase to left with similar window opening to those on first floor to right; tall external end stack to right. Former stable block attached at oblique angle to right, now part of shop; 2 levels, blocked eaves hatches to left and right and segmental-headed openings to ground floor, raised verges to right gable end. Mid-C19 two-storey red brick range at right-angles to rear of main section possibly a former maltings.
Listing NGR: SJ2908129753
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 255485
- 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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