The Green Dragon Public House

SU 12 NE 5/9

ALDERBURY THE GREEN (west side)

The Green Dragon Public House

II

House, now public house. C15 hall house with cross wing added in mid-C16. Plastered timber-framing, tiled roof with brick stacks. 4-bay hall house had 2-bay unheated lower end and 2-bay open hall, jettied cross wing of 2 bays added to right. 2 storeys, 4 windows. Beaded door case to left of centre has gabled pediment, windows to right are 2 C19 3-light mullioned and transomed casements, to left of door is C19 casement. First floor of main range has 3 casements in timber-framing with tension braces, jettied first floor of cross wing has one 3-light casement. Right return of cross wing has 2- light and 3-light casements. To left is weather boarded outshut, to rear is tiled roofed outshut and C19 extension. Interior: Hall has inserted floor and fireplace of mid-C16, finely moulded principal intersecting ceiling beams. Roof was recorded by R.C.H.M.; blackened over former open hall, arch-braced roof with post cappings, tension braces to walls and wind braces to 1st tier of purlins. A fine Late Gothic carved stone fireplace from Ivychurch (q.v.) was removed from the hall and sent to America in 1930s, a Buckler print of 1806 of this feature hangs in the lounge bar of the pub. This inn featured in Dickens' Martin Chuzzlewit as The Blue Dragon. (Unpublished records of R.C.H.M. (England), Salisbury).

Listing NGR: SU1823027445