The Malt Shovel Public House

PONTEFRACT CORN MARKET SE 4521 NW (south-west side) 7/16 No 1 (The Malt Shovel 29.7.50 Public House) (formerly listed under Best Fair)

GV II+

Public house on site of older building. C14 cellar with late C19 public house above altered in C20. 2 storeys and cellar, 4 first-floor windows. Public house: red brick, faced with glazed tiles on ground floor and timber-framing on first floor; Welsh slate roof. Ground floor; to right, wide passage opening through to rear; to left segmental tripartite bow window and part-glazed door below overlight. First floor: studding with central braces, interrupted by paired casement windows. Windows and door have leaded glazing. Brick ridge stack to left of door. Interior, cellar under front of building: two bays of sexpartite rib vaulting, the ashlar ribs heavy and deeply chamfered, and running out into side walls, with a circular boss in each bay, the northern one damaged, the southern one with fine face mask; ashlar door suround has chamfered shouldered lintel, and is rebated for outward-opening door. A flagged barrel-vaulted passage curves as it climbs up to stone steps at rear of front range; bar has imported chamfered beams. The March 1968 Provisional List compares the cellar with one in Malton and a finer one in Gloucester. Recorded by West Yorkshire Archaeology Unit.

Listing NGR: SE4545421895