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List entry Summary

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

Name: WILD BOAR INN

List entry Number: 1130516

Location

WILD BOAR INN, TARPORLEY ROAD

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

County	District	District Type	Parish
	Cheshire West and Chester	Unitary Authority	Beeston

National Park: Not applicable to this List entry.

Grade: II

Date first listed: 03-Apr-1986

Date of most recent amendment: Not applicable to this List entry.

Legacy System Information

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Legacy System: LBS

UID: 55808

Asset Groupings

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List entry Description

Summary of Building

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Reasons for Designation

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History

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Details

BEESTON C.P. TARPORLEY ROAD SJ 55 NE 6/18 Wild Boar Inn - - II House, now public house and restaurant. C19 with extensive early C20 additions. Timber framed with rendered brick additions. Three storeys with tower of 4 storeys. Entrance front: Central portion of 2 storeys with third storey added in early C20. Similar single storey wing at left with early C20 storey above and mid/late C19 wing at right. Central portion of three bays with chevron-patterning to ground floor. Door at left with cambered lintel and projecting porch to right of centre with moulded decoration of C19 date. Three 4-light mullioned windows, each with a transom. Coved jetty to first floor which has decorative quatrefoils to lower row of panels of small framing and chevron patterning above. Two coved oriels at left with 5-light mullioned windows, each with a transom. Five-light window to right of these. Coving to second floor with decorative brackets, quatrefoils, and quarter circles to both rows of small-framing. Window of 8 lights at left with mullions and a transom. Similar window of 7 lights to right with 2 transoms. Each window has a gable over with decorated small framing and decorated bargeboards. Octagonal lantern to ridge at left with copper spire of double pitch. To the left is the 2-storey wing. This has a rendered plinth and 5 and 3-light mullioned windows to left and right respectively. The first floor has 4-light mullioned windows at right and left with a projecting jettied central portion supported on decorated figurehead brackets which contains a 4-light mullioned window with a transom and a circular window above. Octagonal belvedere above this with heavy moulded posts to the corners with arched openings between and an ogee dome above with a weather vane. To the right of centre is a short single-storey wing connecting with the mid/late C19 2-storey rendered wing which has two ground floor bays and three first floor 3-light casements and a gabled projecting wing at the right with decorated timber framing to the gable and decorated bargeboards. At the left is a tower with hipped roof. The rear central block has a recessed bay at left with a tripartite ground floor window of 4 lights with 2 to either side, all mullioned with a transom. Five-light first floor window above. Jettied second storey with window of 7 x 3 panes with decorated quarter circles to the gable and decorative bargeboards. To right of this the ground floor has two 4-light windows with mullions and transoms and a porch at right with quatrefoil decoration. There is a coved jetty to the first floor which has two coved oriel windows of 5-lights, each with a transom. The second floor window is of 8 lights with mullions and two transoms. Decorative framing to gable above which has C19 decorated bargeboards.

Listing NGR: SJ5578459144

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National Grid Reference: SJ 55784 59144

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