Description

SS 3403 HOLSWORTHY CP FORE STREET (East side)

16/34 The Crown and Sceptre

GV II

Inn. c.1910-20 on site of earlier building, main entrance blocked and resited mid C20.
Rough cast probably over brick, pilaster quoin strips and quoins to window openings
with flat lintels, crenellated parapet conceals roof. Plan: one room with carriageway
opening to right, building extended at rear. 3 storeys, 3 bays; first and second floors
sash windows with only one vertical glazing bar to lower frame, central window originally
the entrance, square-headed carriageway entrance with double wooden gates swept down to
centre and latticework upper panels. Entrance to bar now in re-entrant angle via C20
Georgian-style door incorporating fanlight. Interior mid-late C20. Photographs in the
bar show the public house on this site decorated for the coronation of Edward VII in
1901 when it was a 2 storey, 3 bay building with a steeply pitched roof, sash windows,
and a central entrance said to be a through passage to the stables at rear. Included
primarily for group value.

Listing NGR: SS3435903842

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26398903

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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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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy