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SU 8446 NW
6/112

THE BOROUGH (South East Side)
The Bush Hotel (Part Comprising the Elevation Above Ground Floor and Rear Structure in the Street Front to the Borough and the Western, Southern and Part of the Eastern Ranges in the Yard Behind) and number 28 (Formerly part of the Bush Hotel)

(Formerly listed as The Bush Hotel (part comprising the elevation above ground floor and rear structure in the street front to the Borough and the western, southern and part of the astern ranges in the yard behind))

26.4.50.

GV
II

Street front circa 1840 to upper part, with modern alterations (1931) on ground floor. Three storeys. Upper part yellow stock brick on ground floor of shop windows and yard entry framed in plain stone. String at second floor level. Heavy boxed cornice on brackets. Slate roof. Seven-bay front, the five central bays with slight projection. Seven windows on second floor. Five tall four-light casements on first floor, all with splayed surrounds, and recessed panels over and flanked by outer three-light windows. Glazing bars intact.

The yard entry leads to a large court with irregular red brick blocks grouped round it. The former stables form part of the group and all have been altered in recent years to form part of the hotel. To the right hand behind yard entry, a low two-storey, one-bay block; on ground floor a narrow C19 splayed oriel bay window with glazing bars flanked by a door to either side. Projecting forward to left hand of this, with hipped slate roof, a block with two windows on ground floor, one to north curved on corner. Along south-west side of courtyard, south-west range has five windows above, modern glazing below; centre doorway. South-east range facing on to courtyard has one three-light sash window above; sash windows below; portico projecting forward in left hand corner. In north-east range, one portion of three window bays with tile nipped roof, and another portion of four window bays with tile gabled roof.

Garden front of south-east range: two storeys, 10 window bays. Red brick front. Tile roof. Sash windows three panes wide above except for small window over entrance. On ground floor, sash windows and three French casements. In fifth bay from left hand (south west) and, t flush-panelled-door with fluted impost band. Three-light segmental headed fanlight; wide segmental hood supported on low columns. Projecting forward at right hand, north-east end, of this range, a two-storey five-bay block with higher frontage (modern reconstruction: 1930s). Incorporates one of the former chimneys of the old bank building by Norman Shaw.

The Borough front of the Bush Hotel and Nos 29 to 44 (consec) form a group.

Listing NGR: SU8405846918

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• Wikidata Q26658650

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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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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)