Description

STAFFORD

SJ9223SW CRABBERY STREET 590-1/10/10 (South side) 16/01/51 No.36 Former Noah's Ark Inn

II

Public house, used during C20 as office for market hall, currently empty and being refurbished in connection with shopping centre. Possibly early C16 with C19 refronting. Ashlar; slate roof with tile cresting and brick end stacks. L-plan. Tudor style. 2 storeys with attic; 4-window range with rounded angle to right return. Cornices over both floors and top coped parapet. 2-storey canted bay window has 2:3:2-light ovolo-mullioned-and-transomed windows; ground floor has cross-mullioned window to left, entrance with mullioned overlight to right and right end light; 1st floor has small lights with dripstones flanking bay, and larger right end light; gabled dormer window over bay. Angle has single lights to both floors, ground floor cornice stepped up to angle and to right return, which has similar details to front, with shallower roof pitch. INTERIOR inaccessible but recorded as having chamfered beams and joists. Local tradition records visit by Elizabeth I on her way to Stafford Castle.

Listing NGR: SJ9206923291

External Links

• Wikidata Q26506259

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Recommended Books

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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House