Captain Cook Public House

MIDDLESBROUGH DURHAM STREET, NZ 42 SE (4921) west side. 1/26 Captain Cook public house. - II. Public house, dated 1893 in left gable, by Robert Moore (Middlesbrough) Smooth red brick, rendered returns and stucco dressings. Painted stone public house frontage. Slate roof. Jacobethan style with classical features. 2 storeys, 6 bays. Ground-floor bays defined by pilasters under fluted consoles. In 3rd bay, panelled double doors and overlight under 2 painted square panels, in panelled Ionic doorcase with enriched capitals and segmental shell hood on enriched scrolled brackets with grotesque masks. Renewed boarded double doors and overlight in vehicle entrance at right end. Windows with moulded mullions and transoms and renewed glazing. Blind light in each bay carries advertisement. Painted brick plinth. Frieze and dentil cornice and late C20 lamp brackets between floors. Asymmetrical first floor has 5 slightly-projecting mullioned-and-transomed windows, with sashes and glazing bars, including oriel with quadrant angles and ogee oversailing, flanked by engaged quasi-Ionic columns, at left end. Off-centre keyed oculus. Central late C20 brewery sign. Continous cornice. Pilaster strips flank 2 right end bays. Shaped gables, at ends, have pargeting with foliage-enriched strapwork, blocked windows and ball finials on stems. Low parapet, with corniced ramps at ends, runs between gables. Rendered end stacks.

Listing NGR: NZ4972521080