Ship And Shovel Public House

The Ship and Shovel public house originally comprised a pair of terrace houses, built around 1731-32. It was refaced in the late 18th century and given a late 19th-century public house front. The building is constructed of yellow stock brick with a slate roof and has three storeys and a dormered mansard. It is five windows wide, with three windows on the left (No. 2) and two on the right (No. 3). The ground floor has a wooden public house frontage incorporating panelled and glazed doors and bar windows, with Corinthian pilasters supporting an entablature-fascia. Upper floors feature recessed sash windows with glazing bars, set within flat arches and surrounded by stucco voussoirs. A parapet with coping sits atop the building. The pub's interior retains good late 19th-century mahogany bar fittings and some engraved glass. Originally, the building was part of the Craven family's 18th-century development of their Brewhouse property, and is comparable to buildings in Craven Street.