15 Gun Street

Public house, constructed during the C17, altered during the early C19 and further altered and extended during the late C20. The building is currently (2023) in use as a restaurant.

MATERIALS: the principal, north range and part of the eastern range is rendered externally, incorporating timber-frame construction. The late-C20 extension to the south is constructed of brick, partially timber clad and rendered externally. The roof covering is slate to the north roof slope of the north range and plain tile to the rest of the building.

EXTERIOR: the north range is of two storeys across three bays facing onto Gun Street, all under a pitched roof. The building sits considerably lower than the street level. On the ground floor is a modern door set centrally. To either side are a pair of early- to mid-C19 four-light shop windows with turned caps to the mullions. At the western end of the elevation is a blocked doorway. Above, the first floor contains three evenly sized openings, each containing a modern casement window. A brick chimney stack rises through the southern roof pitch adjacent to the blank, eastern flank wall.

Running south from the north range along the eastern plot boundary is a two-storey range under a steeply pitched roof. This range is understood to be a timber-framed construction. Adjoining this range to the south is a late C20 extension of two storeys with a cross-wing projecting to the west. A one-storey pitched-roof extension projects south from the north range along the western plot boundary. A brick chimney stack rises through the roof ridge at the point at which it adjoins the principal, north range. The area to the south of this range has been infilled with a single-storey, flat-roofed extension. The building has a rear courtyard to the south which backs onto the Hogsmill River.

INTERIOR: the first floor of the north range is understood to have a coved ceiling of around 1800 cutting across a C17 roof, which appears to have wind braces. The roof of the timber-framed, southern range is understood to have tie beams with curved braces.