The Green Dragon Public House is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 March 1985. Public house. 1 related planning application.
The Green Dragon Public House
- WRENN ID
- fading-remnant-shade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 March 1985
- Type
- Public house
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Green Dragon Public House is a 15th-century hall house that has been converted into a public house, with a cross wing added in the mid-16th century. The building features plastered timber-framing and a tiled roof with brick stacks. It consists of a four-bay hall house, which includes a two-bay unheated lower end and a two-bay open hall. The jettied cross wing, added to the right, also has two bays. The structure is two storeys high and has four windows.
To the left of the center, there is a beaded door case with a gabled pediment. The windows to the right include two 19th-century three-light mullioned and transomed casements, while to the left of the door is a 19th-century casement. The first floor of the main range has three casements set in timber-framing with tension braces, and the jettied first floor of the cross wing has one three-light casement. The right return of the cross wing features two-light and three-light casements. Additionally, there is a weather boarded outshut to the left and a tiled roofed outshut with a 19th-century extension at the rear.
Inside, the hall has an inserted floor and a mid-16th-century fireplace, along with finely moulded principal intersecting ceiling beams. The roof was recorded by the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments; it is blackened over the former open hall and features an arch-braced design with post cappings, tension braces to the walls, and wind braces to the first tier of purlins. A notable Late Gothic carved stone fireplace from Ivychurch was removed from the hall and sent to America in the 1930s, but a print of this feature from 1806 hangs in the lounge bar of the pub. The inn is mentioned in Charles Dickens' novel Martin Chuzzlewit as The Blue Dragon.
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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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