Premises Occupied By Jg Forster And Ye Olde Horse Shoe Inn

CROOK AND WILLINGTON CHURCH STREET NZ 13 NE (South side) Crook 24/23 Nos. 3 and 4 (premises occupied by J.G. Forster and Ye Olde Horse Shoe Inn) GV II

Shop and public house. Late C18 with mid-C19 shop and public house fronts; public house dated 1822 for C EI I over door. Shop sandstone rubble with ashlar quoins; public house painted render with painted ashlar dressings. Welsh slate roof with brick chimneys. 2 storeys, 3 wide bays and left extension of one storey, one bay. Shop at left has pilasters and entablature framing hardboard- covered door with 2-pane overlight; shop window to left of door has 2 rows of 5 panes. Paired sashes on first floor have rendered jambs and painted projecting stone sill. Eaves gutter board. Public house at right has low 2-panelled door to right of centre in raised stone surround with stone-bracketed moulded hood EI over lintel incised C 1822 I. At left are top-hung_casements in style of late C19 sashes; at right one wide and one narrow window, separated by a short pilaster and framed by pilasters and fascia with fruit-carved brackets. Cornice supports first-floor canted bay. Pierced 2-panel shutters to left ground-floor window. Roof over 2 left bays with left-and central banded chimneys; roof of lower pitch over right bay has right end chimney. Left extension has pent roof; altered from 2-storey building. Public house included for group value.

Listing NGR: NZ1664835581