The Three Blackbirds Public House

FLAMSTEAD HIGH STREET TL 0714 (South side) 9/23 The Three Blackbirds PH -

GV II

Inn, now a public house. C16 or earlier W wing, C17 E range refronted in brick, in C18. C19 porch and jetty of crosswing underbuilt. Timber frame, wing roughcast with red brick casing to ground floor painted on W. E range red brick in Flemish-bond. Steep old red tile roofs. A 2-storeys and cellar, L-shaped corner block facing N. Internal chimney to 2-cells E range rising through front roofslope, entrance at junction with projecting E wing extending to rear with 4 bays and a lateral external chimney to N part and an internal gable chimney at S end. N front has projecting gabled wing on RH with a 4-light casement to 1st floor and a 3-light casement window under a segmental arch on ground floor. Lean-to brick porch in angle with half-glazed 4 panel flush-beaded door. A 4-light casement window to 1st floor and ground floor next porch with plat-band, plinth and corbelled course with projecting headers at eaves. Projecting swinging sign with 2 blind recesses on 1st floor to LH and a 4-panel flush bead door with flat hood on brackets with 3-lights casement window under segmental arch. Irregular W flank wall with a cross-window on 1st floor and other small-panes fixed lights. Interior has exposed timbers with framed E wall of wing opened up as a screen in the bar, mason-mitred crossbeam with chamfered knee-brace in 1st wing, and chamfered axial beam in E range which may have been inserted. Stair in rear angle of wings.

Listing NGR: TL0782814586