Roebuck Inn

LEEK

SJ9856SW DERBY STREET 611-1/6/59 (South side) 13/04/51 Roebuck Inn

GV II

House, in long use as inn. Dated 1626. Timber-framed with Welsh slate roof. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, asymmetrical front of 2 principal gables with a narrow storeyed wing (perhaps originally a porch) to the left. Ground floor with C18 doorway with overlight to right of advanced wing, the fenestration largely as renewed in the early C20, with wide public house windows of 2 and 3 lights. 2 wide gables above, irregularly framed with moulded principal posts between the windows. 3 existing casement windows, that in right-hand gable possibly once wider. Traces of a former window now blocked to right of existing window in left-hand gable, with date on cill, AD MDCXXVI. Close studding beneath the windows. Jettied gables with heavy framing with decorative panelling beneath possible blocked windows. Barge-boards with finials to gables. Left-hand gable advanced, framed with close studding and middle rail, and 5-light mullioned and transomed window forming a continuous band at first floor. Arcaded panelling beneath the windows, and date on cill. Inserted stack towards front of this gable. Other end wall and axial stacks. Rear wing a somewhat later addition, coursed and squared sandstone, the windows mainly renewed. INTERIOR: has plaster moulding to beams of principal room, probably early C19; wall panelling probably not in situ.

Listing NGR: SJ9849056490