The Port Mahon Inn

ST CLEMENT'S STREET 1. 1485 (South Side) No 82 (The Port Mahon Inn) SP 5206 SE 11/492 12.1.54. II 2. RCHM 245. Early C18 but has been altered in parts. 3-storeyed rubble on a moulded stone plinth and with cellars and 2 attic dormers in a Welsh slate roof. The North elevation (on to the road) has 6 steps up to the front doorway with iron hand rails; the doorway has a semi-circular stone head. In the ground floor are 2 plain sash windows in stone frames, the 1st floor has 2 3-light C18 sash windows with a blind semi-circular headed window in between; above this is another window which breaks through the eaves and which has a pediment and scrolled sides. There is a stone band above 1st floor windows and the 2 stacks are of brick. The attic dormers have C19 sash windows. On the South East angle is a stone extension (or wing) with a Welsh slate hipped roof and C18 type sash windows with stone frames, cills and architraves. At the back on the South is a gabled staircase projection. On the West are modern one-storeyed additions. Interior: RCHM p 183 b. Modernized but some original fireplaces. For a drawing of its state in early C19 by J C Buckler see Bodl MS Don a 3.

Listing NGR: SP5256906024