12 Moorgate and 14, Moorgate (Black Boy Public House) is a Grade II listed building in the Bassetlaw local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 November 1976. Public house, house.
12 Moorgate and 14, Moorgate (Black Boy Public House)
- WRENN ID
- long-plinth-grove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bassetlaw
- Constituency
- Bassetlaw MP: Jo White (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 November 1976
- Type
- Public house, house
- Address
- 12 Moorgate and 14, Moorgate (Black Boy Public House), Retford, DN22 6RH
- OS grid reference
- SK 706 814
- Coordinates
- 53.32528, -0.94
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
12 Moorgate and 14 Moorgate, known as the Black Boy Public House, is an early 19th-century building. It is three storeys high, constructed of brick with a pantile roof and a brick eaves cornice, while the public house section is rendered. Number 12 features two brick chimney stacks and has two segmental-headed windows on each floor, which are hung sashes with glazing bars. The entrance has plain pilasters and an entablature, with a three-light rectangular fanlight above a six-panel door that is accessed by three stone steps. The Black Boy Public House has three segmental-headed windows, with glazing bars only on the top floor. The ground floor includes two modern windows and a door, along with an elliptical carriage entry to the right. This building forms a group with Nos 18 to 24 (even), of which Nos 18 to 22 (even) are considered buildings of local interest.
Local climate
12 Moorgate and 14, Moorgate (Black Boy Public House) sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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