Description

ST 77 SW WICK AND ABSON C.P. HIGH STREET (south side)

8/399 Rose and Crown

- II

Inn. Early - mid C17, later C18 and C19 alterations and additions, C20
alterations. Rubble, rendered, double Roman tiled roof with brick ridge and
gable stacks, also pantiles, slates and plain tiles. Originally 2- room through
passage plan, with additions to right and left and wing to right forming L-plan.
West elevation of 2 storeys and 4 windows, ground floor has canted bay with hipped
slate roof, C20 door with timber lintel, 2-light casement and canted bay in angle
of L-plan (in position of original door to through passage) with plain tiled roof;
first floor has four 2-light casements of varieds sizes, one C20 to right; level
of roof higher over 3 bays to left; 2-storey wing to right has door and 9-pane
fixed light, 2-light casement under eaves; attached to left a single storey
pantiled addition, formerly stable, with two 2-light casements. Right return has
single storey addition with blocked window in gable end, 2 C20 doors to rear;
decorative bargeboards at gable end of 2-storey wing. Rear has single storey C20
addition with concrete double Roman tiled roof, C20 windows to rear of single
storey addition to right. Interior: beam along right of through passage has
mortices for screen, slightly lower floor level to right, chamfered door frame to
left with segmental head, rear passage door blocked with timber lintel remaining;
winder stair to rear left, to left of passage fireplace with heavy cambered wooden
lintel, chamfered and stopped beams. First floor not inspected. Said to have
been an inn since 1742 and the birthplace of John Gully, champion prize-fighter of
England, born 21.8.1783.

Listing NGR: ST7044872685

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26647678

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Recommended Books

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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)