New Inn Public House

LANCASTER

SD4761NE MARKET STREET 1685-1/7/176 (North side (off)) 18/02/70 New Inn Public House, New Inn Yard (Formerly Listed as: MARKET STREET (North side) Nos.10 AND 12 New Inn)

GV II

Public house, unoccupied at time of survey. c1767, with C19 alterations. Painted sandstone rubble with brick chimney caps and slate roof. Built at rear of Nos 10 & 12 Market Street (qv), facing New Inn Yard. The left-hand part of the facade is of 3 storeys and has one bay with paired sashed windows separated by a central mullion and with projecting sills, the top left window blocked. To the left, in the angle with the rear wall of No.10 where it is carried over the yard entrance, is a tall stair window with a doorway below on the ground floor. The roof line continues to the right, but the facade is set back and is of 4 storeys plus cellars and of 2 main bays. The left-hand bay has paired sashed windows with a central mullion and projecting sills, the 1st-floor sashes have glazing bars, and the top floor a casement window with plain reveals. The right-hand bay has a single window to each floor, some sashes and some casements with plain reveals, and doorways to the left and to the right. At the left a slated lean-to roof forms an open porch. Above is a tall stair window with glazing bars. Below the roof there are doorways in the main facade and in the return wall of the left-hand projection. Above the former doorway is a stone tablet inscribed: 'I H I' (John and Isabel Hodgson). INTERIOR not inspected, but roof known to contain re-used cruck timbers.

Listing NGR: SD4768861735