Description

WORCESTER

SO8554NW CORNMARKET
620-1/17/203 (West side)
05/04/71 No.12
Slug and Lettuce Public
House
(Formerly Listed as:
CORNMARKET
(West side)
King Charles Bar)

GV II

House, now inn. Probably c1600 with later additions and
alterations including those c1800, renovated 1994. Stucco over
brick with plain tile roof and tall left rear brick stack to
right of rear range. Range to rear at left has raised
roofline. U-plan with ground-floor infill. 2 storeys, 4
first-floor windows. First floor has 6/6 sashes in shallow
reveals. Ground floor has tripartite window to left a 6/6
between 2/2 sash and to right are two 6/6 sashes, all in
shallow reveals, the 6/6 sashes all have sills, the tripartite
window has plank below. Off-centre left entrance in architrave
with fluted pilasters and frieze. Entrance to far right:
4-raised-and-fielded-panel door with overlight. Range to right
(return) has pair of 8/8 sashes to ground floor under cambered
arch. First floor has blocked small elliptically-arched
window; 8/8 sash with elliptical arch in wider
elliptically-arched surround.
INTERIOR: the original plan has been partly demolished but has
simply moulded cornice to front left part, some boxed beams
and some huge exposed beams; at rear a bolection-moulded
fireplace and 8-panel door. Dogleg staircase with stick
balusters and wreathed handrail from ground to first floors,
from first to second floor a closed-string, dogleg staircase
with rod-on-chunky-vase balusters and moulded handrail. Right
return has exposed roof truss with collar beam, upper collar
and queen posts with upper struts.
HISTORICAL NOTE: site owned by the Dean and Chapter c1300;
1376 leased to William Starewaye, a clothier; later to Richard
Traunter, a weaver at 20s4d. Used as an inn by 1659 when it
was known as 'The Sheaf' when it was owned by Robert Fisher.
c1700 the building was occupied by a maltster who supplied
yeast for the brewing process. In 1776 Richard Bullock was the
licensed victualler; in 1778 it was known as The Rodney; from
1810-15 Joseph Reid had a coffee and liquor shop. It has
otherwise formerly been known as Dingles Coffee
House, The Tubs, The King Charles and The Barrels. It became
The Slug and Lettuce in the early 1980s.
All the listed buildings in Cornmarket (qv) form a good group.

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Slug And Lettuce Public House official website
• Wikidata Q26669183

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Recommended Books

• 
  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
• 
  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)