Description

TM 1644 SW OLD CATTLE MARKET

3/444 Bluecoat Boy Public House

GV II

Public House. Dated 1620, extended C18 and early C20. Timber framed, rendered,
with applied timber to upper storey surrounded raised plastered panels. Plaintile
roofs to front, asbestos tiles to rear. Centre C17, right hand bay probably C18,
altered, left hand bay early C20. 2 storeys, part with cellars and attics.
Continuous jetty to C17 build, and to C20 wing. Ground floor, all 8 window open-
ings temporarily boarded over. 3 part-glazed doors, one to each build. At first
floor 4-light mullion to C20 wing, the outer two lights small paned, above the
centre two lights a shallow flat-roofed small paned dormer. Main build has 3 similar
small paned mullion windows, two of 3-lights, that to left of 2-lights; similar 3-
light mullion window to right-hand bay. 2 small-paned two-light flat- headed dormers
to main build. Moulded bressumer, bearing roses, pomegranates, foliate motives,
the centre dated 1620. Similar reproduction bressumer to C20 wing. Rear, of added
gabled wings, the ground floor brick, the upper storey, pebble-dash rendered. Left
hand return similarly treated to main facade. Interior. Ground floor, all origin-
al work covered, except for transverse beams with ovolo mouldings and run out stops.
First floor exposed jowelled posts, fragment of studwork and stop chamfered trans-
verse beams. Slender scantling beams to rear wings. Right hand bay, altered and
extended to rear retains clasped purlin roof with reduced principles. Roof of main
build not inspected.

Listing NGR: TM1636244396

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26530400

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Recommended Books

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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)