The Fountain Inn Public House

SANDWELL MB OWEN STREET SO 99 SE Tipton

4/124 The Fountain Inn Public House and No 52 10.2.82 II

Public house. Early C19. Brick, rendered at front and painted at rear, with slate roof. Two storeys, two bays. Facade has boxed sashes with glazing bars on first floor. On the ground floor is a timber public house front, probably later C19, with pilasters and an entablature, and with a narrow window at the right, possibly replacing a door. The doorway, with a mid-C20 surround, is between the two main ground floor windows. The facade overlaps with No 52 to the right, which has a shop front on the ground floor and two boxed sashes with glazing bars on the first floor. Chimneys on gables of Fountain Inn, and to right of No 52, which has a lower roof line. At the rear are two wings, with brick dentil eaves and with some sashed windows with glazing bars. From 1836 the Inn served as the headquarters of William Perry, the "Tipton Slasher", boxing champion of England 1850-57. Internally the Fountain Inn extends above part of No 52.

Listing NGR: SO9535392320