Crown Hotel Crown Hotel Including Former Brewery Adjoining At Rear

SJ 6634-6734 MARKET DRAYTON C.P. STAFFORD STREET (north- west side)

13/59 No. 1 (Crown Hotel) 7.5.52 including former brewery adjoining at rear (formerly listed as Crown Hotel in Queen Street) GV II

House, now inn. Circa 1600 with late C18 or early C19 alterations and additions. Mid-to late C19 former brewery. Timber framed with painted brick and plastered infill panels on brick plinth. Partly refaced, underbuilt and rebuilt in painted brick. Rendered gable to front. Plain tile roofs, 2-span to right. Framing: jettied first-floor on 2 sides with moulded bressumer (refaced to front), left-hand return front with 4 shaped brackets (one with carved trefoil and 2 with fluting). Closely-spaced studs with middle rail (altered on ground floor). L-plan; short main range to right with projecting gabled cross wing to left of 3 framed bays; block in angle at rear and former brewery attached to north-west. 2 storeys over basement with 2-storey cross wing. Dentil brick eaves cornice to right. Pair of brick end stacks to right and central brick ridge stack to cross wing. 2-window front; C19 four-light wooden casements to right (with segmental heads to ground and first floors) and C20 four-light wooden casements to cross wing at left. Central pair of one-panelled doors in angle of cross wing with rectangular side-margin overlight. Right-hand gable end with evidence of raised eaves. Left-hand return front: first-floor C20 three-light wooden casement to left. Ground- floor C19 three-light wooden window to right and late C19 tripartite sash to left. Pair of boarded doors between with narrow rectangular overlight. Former brewery attached to north-west: red brick with plain tile roof. 2 storeys and loft. Ground-floor chamfered corner to left. Projecting eaves and verge. Central gabled loft semi dormer with segmental-headed boarded door. First-floor segmental- headed 4-pane sash to right and segmental headed 3-part louvred opening to left. Ground-floor tripartite sash to right with painted stone cill and lintel. Blocked segmental-arched carriageway to left, now with 2 inserted C20 casements. Left-hand gable end with segmental- headed loft window and first-floor boarded hoist door. Block in angle at rear is probably a C19 remodelling of a former timber framed range (see interior). Interior: left-hand ground-floor room with ovolo-moulded ceiling beam and chamfered dragon beam. Right-hand ground-floor room with pair of cased beams. Chamfered ceiling beams elsewhere. Right-hand ground-floor rear room has Cl7 fireplace with ogee-stopped chamfered wooden lintel. The framing appears to survive behind the brick skin over the gable end (see end of moulded bressumer). Nos. 2 and 4, Queen Street are also included in this item.

Listing NGR: SJ6754734218