The Fiddlers Elbow Public House

The Fiddlers Elbow Public House is a circa 1845 public house of unknown design. Constructed of yellow stock brick with stone and rendered dressings, the roof is not visible. The building is three storeys high with lower side extensions. The main part of the building features a five-sided drum shape with a projecting rear section. The ground floor is rendered with rustication at the corners and pilasters flanking the doors; the windows here are modern and not of particular interest. A dentil cornice sits above a frieze at first floor level. The first-floor windows are 6/6-pane sashes with gauged arches above. A plat band marks the second floor, where the windows are 3/3-pane sashes also with gauged arches. Above this sits a deep frieze, a dentil cornice, and a parapet, topped by two chimneystacks with moulded caps. The ground floor interior has undergone alterations but retains some behind-bar features, including a run of Corinthian colonnettes, Corinthian columns to the main bar, a pair of moulded brackets, and a depressed arch to the left of the bar flanked by lotus leaf pilasters. The upper floors were not inspected. Formerly known as the Old Mother Shipton, the public house occupies a prominent corner site which is effectively articulated by the drum-shaped upper floors. Despite some internal alterations, it remains a good example of an early Victorian public house.