The Talbot Inn

SJ 32 SE 8/143

RUYTON-XI-TOWNS CP CHURCH STREET (south side) The Talbot Inn

II House, now inn. Late C17 with later additions and alterations. Timber-framed with rendered infill on rendered stone plinth; slate roof. L-plan with short range to rear on right. Two storeys.

Framing: large irregular square and rectangular panels, four from cill to wall-plate with long curving tension braces to front and long straight braces to rear. Painted in imitation to left gable end. Three windows, large late C19 casements, those to first floor directly below eaves. C20 ledged doors to far left and between centre and right windows. Red brick ridge stack between left and centre windows and external end stack to right. Integral end stack to rear range.

INTERIOR: chamfered ceiling beams to ground-floor rooms including chamfered spine beam to left room and richly moulded spine beam to centre room, now knocked into one with right room. C20 flat-roofed addition in angle to rear is not of special architectural interest.

Listing NGR: SJ3922022205