The Hark To Bounty

SD 7052-7152 SIAIDBURN TOWN END (NORTH SIDE)

17/102 The Hark to Bounty 16.11.1954 (Formerly listed as Hark to Bounty Inn) GV II

Public house, probably early C17th and late C18th. Sandstone rubble with slate roof. The earliest part, to the right, has 3 chamfered doorways with Tudor-arched heads. Each has a chamfered window surround to its right, the left-hand one having its sill lowered. A continuous drip course terminates beyond the right-hand door. To the left is a 6-pane sash with plain stone surround. Further left is a flight of external stone steps, with a stepped mounting block attached. On the 1st floor is a door with plain stone surround and 5 windows with plain stone surrounds and 6-pane sashes. The right-hand gable has a blocked doorway (now a window) with chamfered surround and Tudor-arched head. On the 1st floor are the remains of a rebated and chamfered surround to a 6-pane sash. Above is a chamfered attic window. Adjoining to the left (west) is the C18th portion, of 2 storeys with attic. It is of 2 bays, having plain stone surrounds to the door and windows. The latter are 6-pane sashes, the ground-floor surrounds being heightened. The attic windows, now blocked, have shallow oval surrounds. At the far left are the former stables, now part of the public house. They have paired door surrounds, now containing 6-pane sashes, a small window to their left, a 6-pane sash in plain stone surround to the right and 2 similar windows on the 1st floor. Interior: On the 1st floor at the east end is a large room open to the roof, having 4 trusses with ties, light collars and queen struts. At the east end, dividing it from a further room beyond, is a 5th truss of slightly steeper pitch, having a king post from tie to ridge and 2 braces from tie to principals. Beneath, with the muntins tenoned into the tie, is a wooden screen of vertical panels with deeply moulded borders.

Listing NGR: SD7112052404