This picture by Frank Bennett and reproduced here with his permission, first appeared on the Images of England site.
This picture was taken in August 1999. A grade II listed house which is now a public house. "ICE 1718" on door lintel. Squared rubble with graduated stone slate roof and brick stacks. 3-bay 2-storey plan, the original door position, (now on the rear) suggests a baffle-entry. A 2-storey stair wing at the rear (now the front) is used as a porch and C20 additions have been added to each end. 3 window openings on each floor totalling three 2-light double-chamfered mullion windows (2 with hoodmoulds and all with mullions removed) 2 plain casement openings and a round-headed light. The porch has 2 similar round-headed lights, projecting plinth, an off-centre door, and a coped gable with kneelers and a ball finial. 2 ridge stacks and a later door to the right. The blocked door to the rear has a moulded surround and finely carved dated lintel. 3-light double-chamfered window and a single storey wing of a slightly later date. Interior much altered.
When I was a student and used to bump up my grant by working at Walls making pies in the holidays, we used to go there on a Friday lunch time, I bet the 'elf and safety' don't allow that these days - operating machinery after drinking alcohol!!!!!
ReplyDeleteThat's one of the very few pubs I've not had a drink in, ha! or been barred from in my wayward days... I'm sure I might have something about this place Gerald.. I'll see if I can dig it out in the moning.
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