15 And 16, Queen Street

QUEEN STREET 1. 1594 (East Side) Nos 15 & 16 SU 143O SE 2/332A 28.2.52. II* GV 2. Formerly part, of the Plume of Feathers Inn. Buildings round 4 sides of the former Inn yard. Front to street, next to No 17 qv. C15 with front of C18 painted mathematical tiles on timber frame structure. Moulded band cornice and plain parapet. 2 flush framed sashes, no glazing bars on 2nd floor and 2 modern rectangular bay windows on 1st floor. Modern shop and yard entry on ground floor. Over this west end street block a fine C15 4 bay roof structure arched braces, collars and tie beams, traces of timber frame below. The rear wing on north side of yard facing south, jettied upper floors, tile hung, frame of overhangs visible inside. C15 cusped headed doorway, 2 gable facing south partly obscured. Irregular altered fenestration. Structure is mainly Cl5. Early Cl9 extension to east. The eastern range of yard running north-south, much altered. 2 small gables with leaded lights. Old tile roof. Good rainwater head dated 1689. The rear wing on south side of yard, 3 storeys with overhang, modern sham timber framing covering original formerly open galleries. At the east end very fine and unusual open Jacobean staircase leading from the yard to former galleries.

Nos 5 to 21 (consec) form a group.

Listing NGR: SU1453630004