Tudor House Restaurant

SJ 6634-6734; 13/26

MARKET DRAYTON C.P., CHESHIRE STREET (south-west side), Nos. 1 and 3 (Tudor House Restaurant)

07.05.52

GV

II*

Pair of houses, latterly bank, now restaurant and shop. Mid-C17, restored in 1962. Timber-framed with plastered infill; ground floor rebuilt in C20 with yellow/grey sandstone/reconstituted stone. Rendered gable end to south- west. Plain tile roof. Framing: tall rectangular first-floor panels with diagonal struts forming chevron patterns and attic tier of quatrefoil panels beneath eaves. Left-hand gable end with two tiers of quatrefoil panels and cusped curved V-struts in apex. Left-hand return front has first-floor closely-spaced studs to left with middle rail and diagonal struts forming lozenge patterns. Jettied first floor and attic with carved brackets supporting ovolo-moulded and carved bressumers (mainly vine trail but sections restorer with a more stylized motif). Jettied gable end with end brackets supporting billet-ornamented and partly carved tie-beam. L-plan; 3 + 4 framed bays. Two storeys and attic. Pair of C20 gabled eaves dormers with small-paned 2- light metal casements. Stacks not visible. Three-window front; first-floor glazing bar sashes with exposed boxes. C20 ground-floor with small-paned Tudor-arched metal windows. Pair of C20 Tudor-arched panelled doors with rectangular overlights. Carriageway to right with pair of half-glazed C20 Tudor-arched doors. Left-hand return front: pair of restored gabled eaves dormers to left with small-paned 2-light metal casements and 3-light attic casement in gable to right. 3+1 first-floor windows; glazing bar sashes to left with exposed boxes and C20 canted oriel to right of 1-: 2-: 1-lights and with dentil cornice to flat top. C20 ground-floor small-paned Tudor- arched metal windows. INTERIOR only partly inspected. Ovolo-moulded ceiling beams. Framed dividing wall between ground-floor room and right-hand carriage- way with sole plate and stone plinth and long straight tension brace. No. 2 Shropshire Street is included in this block. Nos. 1 and 3, Cheshire Street and No. 2, Shropshire Street form an impressive continous range with No. 4 Shropshire Street (q.v.) B.o.E., p.196; Drayton Civic Society, Market Drayton, A Town and its People, p.39.

Listing NGR: SJ6752834150