Description

1900. 2-storey gabled Arts and Crafts inn on curved roadside site at entrance to bridge. Rendered; half-timbered gables with bracketed eaves. Red sandstone ashlar dressings at ground; black painted brick base course rises to cills; overhanging eaves, exposed rafters, bargeboards.

PRINCIPAL (STREET) ELEVATION: at centre, 5-light bowed timber window at ground, bracketed to square at 1st floor with arched centre light and gable; to right 2-leaf panelled door with stop-roll-moulded surround, bracketed half-pitched canopy; small dormer with swept roof above. To S tripartite window with ashlar mullions and margins, chamfered arrises, at ground; bipartite breaking eaves at 1st floor with piended dormerhead; blank gabled return. To N, broad gable on bracketed corbel

course above ground; canted tripartite window, arched at centre, in gablehead; at ground, 2-leaf panelled door to right with broad roll-moulded upper surround, bipartite window to left with ashlar

mullion and margins, chamfered arrises. N return with similar gable and 2 mullion and transomed windows at 1st floor.

Timber sash and plate glass, and leaded casement windows. Grey-green slates; decorative terracotta ridge tiles and finials. Decorative rainwater hoppers.

INTERIOR: not seen 1994.

Statement of Interest

The former inn was demolished in 1899 to make way for the newly widened bridge.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17846001

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings