Old Beams

Old Beams, Leek Road, Waterhouses, ST10 3HW

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1374759
Date first listed:
03-Jan-1967
List Entry Name:
Old Beams
Statutory Address:
Old Beams, Leek Road, Waterhouses, ST10 3HW
Painted white in those days with a lamp post outside and a sign saying The Old Beams Restaurant Built 1746
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Date:
2002-12-11
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1374759
Date first listed:
03-Jan-1967
Date of most recent amendment:
17-Nov-1986
List Entry Name:
Old Beams
Statutory Address 1:
Old Beams, Leek Road, Waterhouses, ST10 3HW

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

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
Old Beams, Leek Road, Waterhouses, ST10 3HW

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

County:
Staffordshire
District:
Staffordshire Moorlands (District Authority)
Parish:
Waterhouses
National Park:
Peak District
National Grid Reference:
SK 08140 50379

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 16/12/2020

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WATERHOUSES C.P.
Leek Road
Old Beams

(formerly listed as The Old Beams Restaurant, Waterhouses, previously listed as "Olde Beams Restaurant)

GV
II
House. Mid-C18. Coursed and squared rubble with red brick front and ashlar alternating quoins and dressings; plain tile roof with coped verges; brick integral end stacks. Aligned east-west facing south. Three storeys with cyma recta moulded eaves band, reduced proportions to second floor; two bays, two-light flat-face mullioned windows
containing C20 glazing bar casements, C20 window to ground floor right within a blocked doorway; central door with chamfered surround and C20 gabled porch. Lower two-storey, two-bay extension to the right with single-storey projecting gabled wing to the right hand side.

Listing NGR: SK0814050379

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
275197
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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