The Bucks Head Public House is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 July 1952. Public house. 5 related planning applications.
The Bucks Head Public House
- WRENN ID
- watchful-stone-pine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 July 1952
- Type
- Public house
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Bucks Head is a public house incorporating an earlier manor house, dating to the late 16th or early 17th century, with extensions added in the late 17th century, and alterations and extensions in the 19th and early 20th centuries. It is constructed of red brick with ashlar dressings, a stone plinth, and plain-tile roofs. A projecting brick rear gable has ashlar dressings and two diagonal brick shafts; an integral brick stack is on the front gable, and early 20th-century rebuilt ridge and eaves chimneys are on the extension wings.
The building has a plan consisting of a core range dating to the 16th to early 17th centuries, with a gable to the street, early extensions to the south side, and a 20th-century extension wing to the north side. The street front features a central gable and a recessed smaller gable to the left, with a long, late 17th-century range to the far left and a 20th-century extension range to the right. The main gable-end has restored diaper-patterned brickwork with two ashlar windows above a string course, and a restored ashlar three-light mullioned and transomed window on the ground floor. The left return side displays two 19th-century two-light wood mullion and transom casements over an ashlar mullion and transom window. A small gable to the left has a single ashlar mullion window with a stepped dripmould, an ashlar shield dated 1808 in the gable apex, a segmental arched doorway to the ground floor, and a small ashlar window to the left. A further painted rendered gable features a casement window. The long, late 17th-century range is largely hidden behind projecting 19th and 20th-century gabled and flat-roofed extensions, with 20th-century casements in the gable end.
The rear of the building has a central gable, a recessed early 20th-century range to the left, and a late 17th-century coursed stone rubble range to the right. The restored gable is flanked by ashlar-dressed windows at each storey, and the late 17th-century range has two 20th-century windows on each storey. The interior was not inspected. The building was first licensed as an inn around 1700, incorporating the original manor house.
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