Ship Tavern

MATERIALS: The building is built of brown brick laid to English bond with red brick dressings and has a slate roof covering.

PLAN: The Ship Tavern is L-shaped on plan, with an open-plan interior accessed from a central entrance on the front elevation.

EXTERIOR: The building is of two storeys and three bays, with a pedimented doorcase and slender rounded pilasters to the entrance, a C20 door and flanking tripartite windows with C20 glazing bar sashes. There are two matching windows to the upper floor and a blocked narrower window opening above the doorway. The windows are set beneath broad red-brick segmental-arched heads. The east gable has an attic window with a three-over-three pane sash frame. The rear wing has two large and one small window openings with undivided sash frames. The front range has ridge chimneys to each gable.

INTERIOR: The public house has been remodelled to create an open-plan interior. There is a central late-C20 bar counter and back bar, and front section of the building retains hearths to both end walls. There is a central entrance lobby and there are rear access passages to the toilets. Access to the cellar is located within the bar area, via a floor hatch and wooden steps. The cellar areas have low, flat ceilings, some areas with C20 wooden joists.

FIXTURES AND FITTINGS: There are C20 fixed upholstered benches to both ends of the front section of the building.