The Plough Inn And Garage

SJ 40 NW PONTESBURY C.P. CHAPEL STREET (west side) 4/169 - The Plough Inn and Garage

• II

House, now inn and garage offices. Probably C15, extended in early C17 with later additions and alterations, principally of early C19 and mid-C20. Timber framed, partly of cruck construction, and brick, now largely roughcast, plain tile roof. Open hall of 2 unequal bays aligned north-east to south-west extended in early C17 by addition of a box-framed bay to north-east; 2 brick- built bays added to south-west and eaves of whole raised in early C19. 2 storeys; dentilled eaves cornice; framing: exposed to C17 addition, 3 square panels from cill to wall-plate with V-struts from the collar; irregular fenestration, six C20 casements below eaves with one small fixed-light window to right and 5 late C19 and C20 casements to ground floor; entrances through C20 doors to left and right; prominent ridge stack roughly central and end stack to left. Interior: parts of 3 true cruck trusses with tie beams and collars survive, central one being best preserved, all with apexes destroyed; timber framed cross-wall (later) on ground floor beneath central truss. V.C.H. VIII (1968), p.252; Madge Moran, personal communication.

Listing NGR: SJ4002505863