Three Crowns Public House

The Three Crowns Public House is a public house located at No. 12 The Parade in the Barbican area of Plymouth. It is likely from the 17th century and was extended or remodeled in the mid-19th century. The building features stucco with stucco detailing and has tarred slate roofs. The front has a mansard roof behind a balustraded parapet, which includes an entablature with an architrave, widely-spaced modillions in the frieze, and a heavy moulded cornice. There are three mansard dormers with shallow curved roofs, brick end stacks over coped and shaped gable ends, and a rear wing with a steep roof that is set at right angles to the main roof, sweeping lower at the back. A large rubble lateral stack is located towards the front left, and there is a gabled dormer window that breaks the eaves to the right of the stack.

The building has an overall L-shaped plan, with the lower rear wing likely containing the hall of the original structure. The exterior is three storeys plus an attic, with a slightly irregular three-window range. The stucco detailing includes a plinth and channelled rustication on the ground floor, with an entablature and moulded cornice above, as well as rusticated quoins and moulded architraves with segmental heads on the upper floors. The mid-19th century windows are 12-pane hornless sashes, while the ground floor has two similar but shorter 9-pane sashes and two doorways located under the left-hand windows and between the ground-floor windows towards the right, featuring 20th-century panelled and glazed doors. The right-hand return, which includes the front of the rear wing, has similar stucco detailing and mid-19th century sashes, along with another similar sash on the first floor of the rear gable end.

The interior has not been inspected, but a former listing description notes the presence of a 18th-century dog-leg staircase with a closed string, moulded handrail, and Chinoiserie balustrade.