Description

1.
1715 HIGH STREET
(South Side)

No 43
(The Eight Bells Inn)
TQ 8833 1/10 8.5.50.

II GV

2.
A C15 timber-framed building refronted in the C18 but with the timbering
still visible in the side facing Bells Lane. The front elevation is of
2 storeys and attic painted brick. Cornice and parapet. 3 sashes with
glazing bars missing. 2 small bay windows on ground and 1st floors.
Modern public house front on ground floor between them. The building
extends back a long way and on the east side the 1st floor projects on
the protruding ends of the floor joists and curved brackets with a moulded
bressumer at the north end of this front. The north corner of the 1st
floor is studded but the ground floor below it and the whole of the rest
of this side is now fronted with weatherboarding. Modern casement windows.
The rear elevation has a portion with 2 gables and Venetian windows and
there is also a weatherboarded stable.

All the listed buildings on the South side from Nos 17 to 57 form a group.

Listing NGR: TQ8838633301

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26324193

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Recommended Books

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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)