Crown Inn Public House

SO5287 1312-1/15/171 15/03/74

MUNSLOW Crown Inn Public House

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Public House, former Hundred House. Mid C18, with earlier, probably C17, core. Painted brick with floor bands, painted timber frame to rear and gable end. Plain-tiled roofs with brick coped parapet gables and cogged brick eaves, painted stone rubble extensions. Central stone chimney with axial C19 brick upper shaft, projecting stepped brick gable-end stack to right. Rectangular 3-unit plan parallel to road, with wings to rear. EXTERIOR: south-east front is an asymmetrical 3-storey, 6-window range of segmental-arched openings, with three 8/8 sashes with moulded cases and 3 blocked windows at the upper 2 levels, ground floor with 4 sashes of varying sizes, plain doorway at head of straight flight of steps on first floor, later doorway and gabled porch to ground storey with 4-panelled and boarded door. Left return side: lower storeys covered by painted stone rubble lean-to extension, casement in top storey. To left is single-storey and attic painted brick rear gabled extension wing. Right return side: lower storey covered by single-storey rubble stone extension with projecting gabled roof and flat roof to rear, central projecting stack, top floor with C20 casement and framed truss of tie beam, vertical strut and collar to right of stack only. Rear: partly covered by later lean-to extensions and with small square-framed gabled outshut at upper-storey level. INTERIOR: chamfered bridging beams. Large chamfered mantelbeam with C17 carving featuring cockerels.

Listing NGR: SO5211987377