24, The Broadway

Number 24 on The Broadway is a building dating from around 1734. It was developed in a similar style to number 26 by John Carey and became part of the Bear Inn. The building has three storeys and features four windows. It has a double-pile plan with hipped and gabled tile roofs at the rear, as well as tall brick stacks with moulded caps. The exterior is made of multi-coloured stock brick and includes a brick dentil cornice and parapet. A moulded string at the second floor level breaks forward over the first floor windows. The windows are flush framed sash windows with gauged flat red brick arches, exposed boxing, and glazing bars. There is a late 19th-century shopfront. Inside, the first floor front room contains some reused 17th-century panelling. After the Bear Inn closed (before 1768), number 24 became part of Gale's Speenhamland Brewery and from 1802 to around 1930, it was part of the Brewer's House of Adnam's Brewery. In the late 19th century, the ground floor was used as the Bear Public House.