Description

TG 2308 NW PRINCES STREET (north side) 16/649 26.2.54. No. 20 GV II* Former use unknown, now restaurant with C15 and C16 undercrofts. Restaurant:- C16. Flint rubble with timber-framed first floor. Pantile roof. 2 storeys, jetty at first floor. 3 windows at first floor. Left- side entrance to Plumbers Arms Alley. C20 restaurant front with side entrance. First floor with sash windows having glazing and moulded timber surrounds. Small central dormer with sloping roof. Battened first floor ceiling. Rear range:- 2 storeys. First floor jetty. 5 first floor windows. Right-hand door with simple pilasters and hood. Left-hand door C20 'Tudor' with flanking 4-light windows having diamond pattern metal glazing bars. Large central mullion and transome window. Herring-bone brickwork between first floor studs. Right-hand rendered. 2 4-light windows to the left with diamond pattern metal glazing bars. 2 C20 mullion and transome windows to the right with coving beneath the cill. Undercrofts;- Brick. Beneath the rear range, 2 bays having double order diagonal and cross ribs with low profile. Beneath the street range, remains of early C16 barrel-vault, parallel to the street line. 2 moulded brick arches on east wall and twin lighting niches in the south and east walls. The building is graded II for the undercrofts which form part of an important group within the City Walls.

Listing NGR: TG2327508829

External Links

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