The Jolly Sailor Inn

SALTFORD

ST66NE MEAD LANE 739-1/2/87 (East side) 19/06/75 The Jolly Sailor Inn (Formerly Listed as: KEYNSHAM MEAD LANE, Saltford (East side) The Jolly Sailor Inn)

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Public house. Reported to date from 1726 (opening of Avon Navigation) with mid C19 and late C20 alterations and additions. Squared and coursed rubble with ashlar dressings, copings and single-Roman tile roof with gable end brick stacks. PLAN: 3-unit plan with C19 extensions to rear either side of staircase tower under catslide roofs and late C20 extension to east. EXTERIOR: symmetrical south front to River Avon with central doorway, continuous string course over ground-floor windows, cruciform metal braces under eaves and gabled roof. All windows are mid C19 plate-glass sashes with horns in edge-moulded architraves; 2 roof dormers with late C20 top-opening casements and one roof-light. Bolection-moulded architrave to doorway with flat hood on brackets; part-glazed late C20 door. Staircase tower to rear has 2-light mullion window with casements and hipped roof. INTERIOR: early C18 inglenook fireplace to ground-floor right-hand front room; further fireplace to ground-floor left-hand front room. HISTORICAL NOTE: wooden surround to fireplace in left-hand room has holes made by hot pokers by newly-promoted barge captains who then stood rounds of drinks. FURTHER INFORMATION: the inn is situated adjacent to Saltford Lock on the River Avon.

Listing NGR: ST6926267962