The Allied Arms Inn, 57 St Mary’s Butts

Public house of probable C16 or C17 origin, re-fronted and extended in the C19/C20.

MATERIALS: façade of brick and stucco walls, timber frame to the interior, under tile and slate roofs.

PLAN: the building occupies a long, rectangular plan extending eastward from the street entrance on St Mary’s Butts.

EXTERIOR: the front elevation is two-storey and of two bays. It has a red brick ground floor laid in Flemish bond and stucco render to the first floor. To the centre, there is a five-light, mullion window with leaded casements. To the right side and adjoining the window frame, there is a timber plank and batten door with central light. Above the ground floor, there is a C20 painted timber fascia board. On the first floor, there are a pair of timber sash windows with eight-over-eight glazing, set within stuccoed architraves. Above, there is a moulded stucco cornice, beneath a half-hipped, clay tile roof.

To the right side, there is a carriageway paved with granite setts, which is fronted by a pair of timber doors with decorative ironwork to the upper section. The lean-to roof above is fronted with fish-scale tiles. The south elevation faces onto the carriageway. It is jettied including a timber bracket and has two, first-floor sash windows. The ground floor is of brick and has multi-pane windows.

At the rear, there is an extension which is rendered and has a slate roof. Adjoining to the east side there is a single-storey, flat-roofed building, apparently constructed in the late C20, but which may incorporate fabric from an earlier building on the site.

INTERIOR: there are two principal bar rooms which have solid box framing, with chamfered cross beam, one mid-rail and exposed joists. There is thought to be close studding to a partition on the first floor and one of the roof ties is bracketed.