The Old Ship and Windmill Cottage

The Old Ship, 548, Bath Road, Saltford, BS31 3JL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1384649
Date first listed:: 19-Jun-1975
List Entry Name:: The Old Ship and Windmill Cottage
Statutory Address:: The Old Ship, 548, Bath Road, Saltford, BS31 3JL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1384649
Date first listed:: 19-Jun-1975
Date of most recent amendment:: 17-Jul-2000
List Entry Name:: The Old Ship and Windmill Cottage
Statutory Address 1:: The Old Ship, 548, Bath Road, Saltford, BS31 3JL
Statutory Address 2:: Windmill Cottage, 548a, Bath Road, Saltford, BS31 3JL

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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

Location

Statutory Address:: The Old Ship, 548, Bath Road, Saltford, BS31 3JL
Statutory Address:: Windmill Cottage, 548a, Bath Road, Saltford, BS31 3JL

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

District:: Bath and North East Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Saltford
National Grid Reference:: ST 68730 66751

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 10 February 2025 to amend the name and address and reformat the text to current standards.

ST66NE 739-1/2/70

SALTFORD BATH ROAD (West side) Nos.548 AND 548a The Old Ship and Windmill Cottage (Formerly listed as Nos.548 AND 550, The Old Ship and Windmill Cottage, previously listed as: KEYNSHAM, BATH ROAD (West side), Saltford, No.548, The Old Ship)

19/06/75

II Public house, now two attached houses. Possible late C17 core to The Old Ship with early C18 refronting; Windmill Cottage is early C18 with early C19 alteration and refenestration. Coursed squared rubble, formerly rendered, with stone dressings to windows, ashlar copings; Roman tile roofs with end gable brick stacks to roadside ranges and pantile roof with end ashlar stack to rear range.

PLAN: possible C17 range to rear of The Old Ship with later addition facing road which may have been refronted mid C18; further,lower southern extension which is now WindmillCottage. Both ranges have double-depth plans.

EXTERIOR: two storey; five window range to The Old Ship, two storey; two window range to Windmill Cottage. Symmetrical east front to The Old Ship with central doorway, ground and first floor continuous strings and defaced datestone above centre first floor window. All windows are twelve-pane sashes in edge-moulded stone architraves. Plain architrave to doorway with flat stone hood on brackets; part-glazed panelled door. Both return walls have a two-light chamfered mullion window to upper floor. Windmill Cottage has bow to right with early C19 tripartite windows in flush limestone surrounds with central twelve-pane sashes to both floors. The bow is tied to The Old Ship by the continuation of the string course above ground-floor windows. Round-arched doorway to left with steps up, late C20 panelled door and semicircular fanlight; small late C20 three/six sash window under cambered head either side of doorway; early C19 twelve-pane sash with thin glazing bars to first floor.

INTERIOR: not inspected.

HISTORICAL NOTE: the inn was used as a staging post on the turnpike road between Bath and Bristol

FURTHER INFORMATION: the height above the first-floor windows and the presence of mullion windows at this level on return walls of The Old Ship suggests a refronting.

(White E: Keynsham and Saltford: Keynsham: 1990-: 47).

Listing NGR: ST6873066751

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Legacy System number:: 485102
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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White, E , Keynsham and Saltford, (1990), 47

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.