Captain Cook Public House

The Captain Cook Public House is a public house built in 1893 by Robert Moore in Middlesbrough. It features smooth red brick with rendered returns and stucco dressings, and has a painted stone frontage. The building is designed in the Jacobethan style with classical elements and has two storeys and six bays. The ground-floor bays are defined by pilasters beneath fluted consoles. In the third bay, there are panelled double doors with an overlight, framed by two painted square panels, all set within a panelled Ionic doorcase that has enriched capitals and a segmental shell hood supported by enriched scrolled brackets with grotesque masks. There is also a renewed boarded double door and overlight in the vehicle entrance at the right end. The windows feature moulded mullions and transoms with renewed glazing, and there is a blind light in each bay that carries an advertisement. The building has a painted brick plinth, a frieze, a dentil cornice, and late 20th-century lamp brackets between the floors. The asymmetrical first floor has five slightly projecting mullioned-and-transomed windows with sashes and glazing bars, including an oriel window with quadrant angles and an ogee oversailing, flanked by engaged quasi-Ionic columns at the left end. There is an off-centre keyed oculus and a central late 20th-century brewery sign, along with a continuous cornice. Pilaster strips flank the two right end bays. The shaped gables at either end have pargeting with foliage-enriched strapwork, blocked windows, and ball finials on stems. A low parapet with corniced ramps at the ends runs between the gables, and there are rendered end stacks.