The Elephant and Castle Public House is a Grade II listed building in the Wakefield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 February 1979. Public house. 7 related planning applications.
The Elephant and Castle Public House
- WRENN ID
- waning-hammer-woodpecker
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wakefield
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 February 1979
- Type
- Public house
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
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SE 3220 NE 1/276
WESTGATE (south side), No. 109 (The Elephant and Castle Public House)
GV
II
Public house with an early-C20 fanciful-styled frontage.
Built of red brick with terracotta and faience dressings and a slated roof, this is a two-storey building of three bays facing Westgate. The outer bays have large, shaped pediments, the central bay having a small segmental pediment; these three pediments feature raised gold lettering on terracotta scrolls reading ‘Elephant and Castle’. They are all above the blocking course of an entablature with frieze. The various first-floor windows are pedimented, mostly with open-based segmental pediments. The ground- floor frontage features glazed brown tiles with pilasters, spandrels and frieze ornamented in gold and green. The entrance is to the central bay and is round-arched, the flanking bays having wide, four-centred arches.
Listing NGR: SE3288020674
Detailed Attributes
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