The Boot Inn

TISBURY HIGH STREET ST 92 NW (east side)

4/230 The Boot Inn

GV II

Inn. Circa 1600 with additions to front of c1700 and C19. Timber-framing rebuilt in rubble stone with dressed limestone additions, concrete tiled roof, brick stacks. Three-cell original plan. Two-storey, 3-window. C20 door on south side of C18 range with blocked door and C20 casements to left, first floor has blocked sash with plain architrave, main range to right has two 2- light C20 mullioned casement and blocked doorway to ground floor and two 2-light C20 mullioned casements to first floor. Front of C18 range to left has stone 2-storey canted bay with 4-pane sashes, segmental-headed stone tablet with 'The Boot Inn' inscribed and incised inscription across first floor 'BENETT AND INDEPENDENCE', an election slogan; C16 range to left has 2 and 3-light recessed chamfered mullioned casements. Attached to right of main front is single-storey C19 extension with C20 bay window and polygonal roof. Rear has cast-iron casement and pointed doorway to left, 2-light and 3-light casements to right. First floor has 2-light mullioned casement and wooden casements. Interior retains some square-panelled timber-framing in wall between original range and C18 addition. Middle room, former parlour has deeply chamfered beam with stepped stops, open fireplace in north room with chamfered arched lintel. South room has chamfered beam marking position of former smoke hood, replaced in stone. (Unpublished records of RCHM (England), Salisbury)

Listing NGR: ST9444829615