The Trooper

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SP 9612 12/29

ALDBURY TROOPER ROAD (East side) The Trooper

(Formerly listed as The Valiant Trooper PH)

4.4.74

GV II

House, now a public house for two centuries. C16 origin as a cruck framed building, heightened and extended in C17, South half of two storeys part projecting rear and brick fronted with 'ID 1769' and 'MD 1769' cut in the front. Long C19 low stable wing attached to North end extending East, converted to pub accommodation with glazed lean-to link at North West in 1980's. Timber frame roughcast North part with black stucco plinth, chequered red and black brick front and red brick to rear projection of South part and front of single-storey South end with matching shallower C20 South toilet extension. Steep old red tile roofs. Plum brick North stable range with plastered West part and hipped slate roof. Red tilehanging to South gable of two storeys part. A two storeys and attic, two windows long building with single-storey South wing, facing W on the bend in Trooper Road. Three-light, small-pane, casement windows with Yorkshire sliding casement to North part ground floor, and segmental arch to South part ground floor. A three-light casement window and four-panel, half-glazed door to low South wing. Large axial external North gable chimney. Small internal South gable chimney, and South gable chimney to South wing.

Interior has exposed timbers, chamfered axial beams, large open fireplace with oven at North gable, clasped-purlin roof, and a diagonal corner fireplace served by the South gable chimney. The recent removal of a similar fireplace at the South East corner of the projecting rear part revealed the lower part of a cruck blade in the gable wall, the upper part of which has not been exposed.

Called The Trooper Alehouse up to c.1890. (Davis (1980) No.24).

Listing NGR: SP9642512207