Pen And Parchment Public House

STRATFORD-UPON-AVON

SP2055SW BRIDGE FOOT 604-1/8/9 (North East side) 09/02/72 Pen and Parchment Public House (Formerly Listed as: BRIDGEFOOT Unicorn Hotel and premises occupied by Conservative Association)

GV II

Public house. Late C18 probably with earlier origins. Brick; tile roof with brick stacks. 2 storeys; 3-window range. 2 rear wings. Top modillioned brick cornice. Round-headed entrance to left of centre has architrave and bracketed open pediment; fanlight with intersecting glazing bars over 6-flush-panel door. Central 2-storey canted bay window with cornices and 16-pane horned sashes and 4-pane side lights, panelled apron to 1st floor; other windows have sills, and heads covered by C20 canopies; those to ground floor have 16-pane horned sashes in moulded frames, those to 1st floor have 12-pane paired sashes. Left return has wing with hipped tile roof, end recessed; windows with rubbed brick flat arches, casement and 12-pane sash to ground floor, 12-pane thick-bar sashes to 1st floor, end has 12-pane sash to stair window. Early C20 cross wing across rear. Right return (being rebuilt April 1991) has wing with coped gable. INTERIOR: exposed beams, some probably re-used: one ovolo-moulded, one richly moulded. The large barn (not included), said to have been used as theatre in C18, is of late C18 or early C19 date and much altered.

Listing NGR: SP2041055010