Three Horseshoes Public House
Three Horseshoes Public House, 11, Leicester Road, Whitwick, LE67 5GN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1391321
- Date first listed:
- 18-Feb-2005
- List Entry Name:
- Three Horseshoes Public House
- Statutory Address:
- Three Horseshoes Public House, 11, Leicester Road, Whitwick, LE67 5GN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1391321
- Date first listed:
- 18-Feb-2005
- List Entry Name:
- Three Horseshoes Public House
- Statutory Address 1:
- Three Horseshoes Public House, 11, Leicester Road, Whitwick, LE67 5GN
- Statutory Address 2:
- Three Horseshoes Public House, 11, Leicester Road, Whitwick, LE67 5GN
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:
- Three Horseshoes Public House, 11, Leicester Road, Whitwick, LE67 5GN
- Statutory Address:
- Three Horseshoes Public House, 11, Leicester Road, Whitwick, LE67 5GN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Leicestershire
- District:
- North West Leicestershire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Whitwick
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 43776 16018
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 29 July 2021 to remove superfluous source details and to reformat the text to current standards
52/0/10013
Whitwick
LEICESTER ROAD
11, Three Horseshoes Public House
II
Public house. Two cottages of early/mid C19, converted and extended with a front range to form public house in 1882. Red brick with hipped slate roof to front and plain tile roof to rear range. Various side and rear brick stacks. Two storeys. Front 1882 wing (plaque on front elevation) is a three window range at first floor of six/six sashes. Below is the front door with overlight with a tripartite window either side with one/one sashes. Window openings and front door have incised stucco lintels with keystones. Painted stone sills. Margin light sashes to sides except for left upper one/one sash. To right rear is the original earlier C19 range with truncated gable end stack. C20 windows to front. Attached to far right is a single-storey outbuilding which projects forward and has gable end to road.
INTERIOR: ground floor to front has two rooms with central servey. Front door opens into internal partially glazed timber lobby with an off-sales hatch facing. Public bar (entered by doorway with overlight above to left side of the lobby) has red quarry tiles to floor, late C19 panelled bar fittings and two fireplaces with timber and tiled surrounds. Fixed timber benches to external walls. Saloon bar (entered by doorway to right side of the lobby) has boarded floor and hatch to communicate with servery. Fireplace has carved timber surround. Dado rail to wall.
HISTORY: Whitwick, situated on the edge of the Charnwood Forest and in the former long-established Leicestershire coalfield, developed as a mining community following the opening of the Whitwick Colliery in the 1820s. The development along Leicester Road was largely undertaken 1850-1900 and public houses such as this one opened to serve the expanding population. The colliery closed in the late C20. However the Three Horseshoes (also know locally as 'Pollys' after a popular former barmaid), remains as a remarkably complete survival of a rare two-room working man's public house of the later C19.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 492090
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
National Inventory of Pub Interiors of Outstanding Historic Interest, (), 2003
Smith, S, A Brief History of Whitwick, (1984)
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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