The Shakespeare

MIDDLESBROUGH LINTHORPE ROAD, NZ 4920 NW east side. 7/44 No. 34 (The Shakespeare) G.V. II. Public house, mid-C19, with 1911 frontage by Kitching and Lee (Middlesbrough). Red brick with white terracotta bands and dressings; polychrome faience-faced ground floor. Welsh slate roof, concealed by parapet. 2 storeys, 3 bays. Panelled double doors and mullioned overlight, at left, in moulded surround under hoodmould with foliate drops. Similar surrounds to mullioned-and-transomed ground-floor windows, the middle wider; both with renewed glazing. Doorway and right end window each has square keystone with lifebelt motif. Similar motif in panel under middle window. Continuous frieze and cornice, raised at ends to form tympana over door and window, with applied lettering: "THE SHAKESPEARE". Central first-floor oriel window, with foliate enriched undersailing. Double-keyed moulded window surrounds, holding sashes, except for renewed fixed centre light of oriel. Top entablature and parapet, with balustraded panels at ends and central shaped false gable, with relief portrait of William Shakespeare in roundel under hoodmould. Similar applied lettering in tympanum of open pediment. Late C19 and C20 rear extensions are not of special interest.

Listing NGR: NZ4946420535