Survey Data
Reg No
50100343
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Original Use
Public house
In Use As
Restaurant
Date
1900 - 1920
Coordinates
316937, 233708
Date Recorded
30/08/2016
Date Updated
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Description
Corner-sited four-bay three-storey former public house, built c. 1910, with two-bay east elevation and full-height rear return, and abutted to east by single-pitched single-storey projection. M-profile artificial slate roof, hipped to east, with terracotta ridge and hip tiles with finials, and with moulded brick eaves course. Corbelled red brick chimneystacks with yellow clay pots. Cast-iron ogee-profile gutters on moulded red brick eaves cornice, with decorative cast-iron hoppers and downpipes. Flemish bond red brick walling to front and east elevations; unpainted render to rear. Segmental-headed window openings to first floor and square-headed to second floor, with bowtell-moulded brick surrounds and brick voussoirs, pedimented to first floor, having granite sills (with consoles to second floor), plain rendered surrounds to rear, and with replacement two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows with profiled horns. Painted rendered shopfront of c. 1910, modified c. 1990, spanning ground floor, with plain fascia, recent raised and fixed lettering, dentillated cornice and foliate end consoles to front elevation and replacement frontage to side elevation over engaged painted masonry pilasters (recent timber replacements to north elevation), framing recessed recent square-headed display windows. Recent timber panelled doors to east and west elevations.
Appraisal
An early twentieth-century former public house and commercial building characterized by machine-made red brick walling, granite detailing and a wraparound pubfront. It was refurbished in recent years as a restaurant, and elements of the original pubfront remain. However, it is unclear how much original fabric remains under modern additions, but the building continues to make an important contribution to the streetscape, as it is one of the few remaining historically significant buildings on Hogan Place.