Building record 1171400000 - FIVE BELLS, HIGH STREET

Summary

Seventeenth and early eighteenth century timber-framed thatched house, formerly the Five Bells public house

Protected Status/Designation

  • Listed Building (II) 1124238: FIVE BELLS

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Type and Period (3)

  • HOUSE (17th Century to 18th Century - 1600 AD to 1799 AD)
  • PUBLIC HOUSE (19th Century - 1800 AD to 1899 AD)
  • (Alternate Type) TIMBER FRAMED HOUSE (17th Century to 18th Century - 1600 AD to 1799 AD)

Description

Grade II. House. C17 and early C18. Front has timber frame: 2 right bays with diagonal braces, colourwashed render infill and rendered plinth; left bay with slighter framing and colourwashed brick infill. Left gable rebuilt in brick, right gable weatherboarded, rear wall of rubble stone. Thatched roof, half-hipped to left. Chimneys of thin brick to right and between left bays, the latter rebuilt. L-plan. 1½ storeys, 3 bays. Irregular 2 and 3-light C20 leaded casements, the 2 upper windows in thatch. C20 door and gabled porch between left bays. Low thatched wing to rear. RCHM I p. 250. Mon. 4 (B1).
Buildings report dated Nov 1977 - Nov 1978 held at NMR (B3).

Sources (4)

  • <1>SBC19811 Bibliographic reference: DoE. 1985. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: Buckinghamshire: Aylesbury Vale: Parishes of Boarstall &C. p57.
  • <2>SBC19153 Unpublished document: Oxford Archaeological Unit. 2000. Land Adjoining Five Bells, Ludgershall: Archaeological Field Evaluation Report.
  • <3>SBC23358 Unpublished document: English Heritage. 2006. NMR Buildings Reports. BF033004.
  • <4>SBC25900 Unpublished document: Michael Farley Archaeology. 2000. Ludgershall: archaeological, historical & topographical background to a proposed development site on land adjacent to the Five Bells.

Location

Grid reference SP 65952 17321 (point)
Civil Parish LUDGERSHALL, Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire

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Record last edited

Jan 17 2023 3:50PM

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