The Talbot

TQ05NE 2/142 14/6/67

RIPLEY C.P. HIGH STREET (South Side) The Talbot (formerly listed as The Talbot Hotel)

GV II*

Coaching Inn, now restaurant and bars. C16 with C18 front. Timber framed exposed on inner return fronts with whitewashed brick infill, brown brick cladding to front. Plain tiled roofs, partly obscured by brick coped parapets. Two storeys with square corbelled stack to left, multiple corbelled stack to right. 2 larger bays to left with tripartite glazing bar sash windows under gauged brick heads (painted over on ground floor) to each floor. 5 bays to right of entrance: 3 storeys with glazing bar sash windows on first and second floors under gauged brick and rendered key- stoned heads. End bosses to metal tie beams above second floor windows. 3 ground floor sash windows to right with keystoned gauged brick heads painted over. Leaded casement window in whitewashed brick surround to right of entrance, flanked by tapering pilasters - Acanthus leaf capitals. Gabled entrance bay to left of centre with keyed roundel over "Venetian" window with gauged brick dressings. Full height, arched, panelled coaching doors with large lantern over on scroll supports, to left of centre. Scrolled flat hood with metal hangers to right end. Inner return front: 6 framed bays with framing exposed. Early C18 fluted Doric Pilaster surround and flat hood to left of centre. C20 casement fenestration with single storey flat roofed square bay window to ground floor left. Single storey brick wing extending a considerable distance to rear left.

Listing NGR: TQ0542156882