The Bobbin

This building is a house and public house, dating to the late 18th century (before 1778), with additions built around 1900, likely by Paley and Austin. It is constructed of dressed sandstone with ashlar dressings, and slate roofs. The original house, at No.36 Cable Street, has a facade of sandstone ashlar in narrow courses. It features chimneys on the left-hand gable and between bays 2 and 3. It has a double-depth plan with a rear wing to the left. The building has two storeys above a cellar, and consists of three bays. Visible architectural details include a sill band on the first floor and an eaves cornice. All openings have plain reveals. The first-floor windows have 15-pane sashes. The right-hand ground-floor window is sashed with glazing bars in the upper sash only. The left-hand ground-floor window is more recent and has casements. The central bay’s doorway has a simple cornice on consoles, and a rectangular overlight with glazing bars forming a diamond pattern. The door itself is from the late 19th century, with nine panels, and there is a blocked opening to the left.

The 1900 addition is a rectangular structure on the corner of Cable Street, with a central entrance on Chapel Street, flanked by a pair of chimney stacks. The addition has two storeys and an attic above a cellar, and features three irregular bays to Chapel Street, a curved corner bay, and two bays to Cable Street. The corner bay’s windows are flanked by pilasters carrying a deep frieze, which continues around the building. Gables are positioned over the entrance, the corner bay, and the Cable Street bays (the last with an attic window). The entrance has a semi-elliptical arch with alternately dropped voussoirs and a hoodmould, which steps up over each dropped voussoir. The entrance has canted sides, whose dados have original tiles depicting an attractive pattern of birds and flowers. All windows have square hoodmoulds with a stepped centre, and chamfered surrounds with a run-out stop. The upper sashes of the windows have glazing bars, while the lower sashes have plate glass.