The Bleeding Wolf Public House

The Bleeding Wolf Public House

A two-storey vernacular revival style public house with rendered brick painted white, weather boarding, and a thatched roof. The building features orange brick chimneyshafts with tall flues.

The front elevation is distinguished by a semi-circular bay window to the left of centre and a set-back right-hand end. The deep thatched roof is half-hipped to the left end and mansarded to the right, with a conical thatched roof covering the bay window. Low eaves feature eyebrow dormers to the first floor, and weatherboarding extends to the apex of the right return and set-back right bay. Windows throughout are horizontal wooden mullion windows glazed with leaded small panes, with diagonally set orange brick sills and projecting rendered lintels. The ground floor contains three three-light windows, a wide doorway, three three-light windows to the bay with the central window depicting a painted and coloured glass wolf, a further wide doorway, a five-light window, a three-light window to the return, and a set-back wide doorway to the right end. All three doorways feature adzed and pegged timber surrounds, battened timber doors with iron studs, strap hinges, and bullseye porthole windows. The first floor has a four-light window, three three-light windows to the bay, a four-light window, and a three-light window to the set-back right end. Tall orange brick stacks sit to the left side elevation, with two ridge stacks positioned to the right of the bay window, all topped with corbelled caps.

The rear elevation comprises a two-storey wing to the left with a half-hipped roof, a shallow single-storey outshot with hipped roof, a recessed central area with a modern conservatory, and a single-storey block at the right-hand end beneath a hipped roof oversailing from the main range behind. Windows and transom wc windows match the detailed mullion and leaded glazing of the front elevation. A tall brick eaves stack sits to the right-hand end.

The double-depth plan contains a public bar to the front left with men's wcs to the rear, separated by an entrance and off-sales area from a central saloon bar and servery with a semi-circular bay and separate (now disused) entrance. A dining room, formerly called the assembly room, occupies the front right. A set-back entrance (no longer in use) and ladies' wcs sit to the far right. An oak room, formerly used as a smoke room, is positioned to the rear left with adjacent men's wcs. A lateral corridor with staircase, a carvery (formerly noted as a living room and also known as a games room), and a kitchen are located to the rear right. The first floor contains a number of large rooms opening off a wide lateral corridor.

The interior retains many original features executed in the inter-war 'publicans' rustic' style. The public bar, saloon bar, and dining room feature exposed adzed timbering and adzed joists and beams, with those in the latter two rooms encased with corbels to imitate sturdy timbers. The public bar contains a stone fireplace and hearth framed by cruck-like timbers, a serving hatch with wavy, adzed and pegged surround and wainscotting to the counter, and fixed benching with adzed woodwork and a bell-push panel.

The inner lobby door to the former off-sales has Tudor arched leaded glazing to its upper half incorporating a coloured glass mug of beer, with painted and coloured representations of Robinson's beer bottles in the leaded side lights. The out-sales hatch retains its leaded sliding sash screen. The saloon bar features a segmental-shaped bar counter with adzed lapped boarding and an original bar back to the servery, with a side hatch opening into the rear corridor fitted with a leaded sliding sash screen. An inglenook fireplace with adzed timber lintel, fixed seating, and a brick hood over the fire is accompanied by balustrading with splat balusters to the bay. Double doors with portholes lead to the oak room, one door painted with a wolf. Panelled walls with a plate shelf at picture rail level, linenfold panelling over a stone fireplace, bell pushes, and a moulded cornice complete the scheme.

The carvery room has a moulded cornice, brick fireplace, and modern wall panelling. The staircase features adzed splat balusters. Original features throughout include tiling, some depicting stylised animals or fish, to all original wcs and urinals; doors with Tudor-arched inserts of battening and iron thumb latches; decorative iron window latches; and a number of original chandelier and lantern light fittings. The first floor retains original tiling to the bathroom, similarly detailed doors (two bearing numbers suggesting they may originally have been let out as rooms), and Art-Deco fireplaces in a number of rooms.