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Latitude: 53.7684 / 53°46'6"N
Longitude: -2.7044 / 2°42'15"W
OS Eastings: 353668
OS Northings: 430456
OS Grid: SD536304
Mapcode National: GBR T95.PZ
Mapcode Global: WH85M.FJFY
Plus Code: 9C5VQ79W+96
Entry Name: The Unicorn Hotel
Listing Date: 20 December 1991
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1218706
English Heritage Legacy ID: 392106
ID on this website: 101218706
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SD53SW NORTH ROAD 941-1/1/218 (East side) No.378 The Unicorn Hotel
GV II
Public house. Earlier C19, altered. Sandstone ashlar facade with watershot coursed sandstone sides and rear, slate roof. L-plan formed by rectagular main block with long rear wing to left. Jacobean style. Two storeys over basements, a symmetrical 3-window facade with a central gable, central doorway in C17 style with hoodmould, canted bay windows at ground floor, cross-windows at 1st floor with 4-pane glazing in each light and double-hung sashes in one side only. Roof with large front gable and projecting verges, all with apex finials; axial chimneys on ridge each side of centre. Left side wall has blocked doorway at ground floor, and sashed window above this with joinery in cross-window form; wing continued to rear has doorway to basement, 2 smilar windows at ground floor and 3 above (plus a small inserted window at ground floor). Right-hand side wall has modern brick addition at ground floor (toilets). Rear: wing includes open-fronted double cart-house with central iron column, and former stable at rear end, with manger (linked to remains of former shippon forming rear end of cobbled yard). INTERIOR: ground floor mostly altered but includes small lobby with large iron hooks in ceiling; large vaulted basements throughout, with stone keeping table, and butcher's rails suspended from ceiling; original batten doors with strap hinges, including external door to yard, with ventilation grill. History: associated with former cattle market held on adjoining site in earlier C19.
Listing NGR: SD5366830456
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