The Three Little Pigs And Attaced Stables

The Three Little Pigs and Attached Stables

A public house with former stables at the rear, built around 1836 in the Italianate style. The building is constructed in Flemish bond brick with rounded corners in header bond, and a rendered right return. The roof is slate with gabled ends and multiple-shaft end stacks with period chimney pots.

The main building is rectangular in plan with a rear right wing. The front elevation is three storeys tall, with the rear wing at two storeys. The building features distinctive rounded front corners and presents a three-bay front elevation plus a single-bay section at the left end where a single-storey block adjoins. The three bays are divided by pilasters, with platbands running across the first and second floor levels.

The central doorway has moulded consoles supporting a shallow porch hood, with a doorcase featuring panelled reveals. The door itself is recessed with four panels and an overlight containing late 19th-century leaded panes and stained glass. The right-hand window and the corner window are framed as a pair by plain pilasters with fascia and cornice above, both fitted with mid to late 19th-century four-pane sashes. The corner window is curved, with some damage to the brickwork below. The remaining windows have chamfered embrasures and segmental arch heads with timber segments panelled and a central roundel. The ground floor window to the left is set in a segmental arch headed recess and contains a small-pane sash with margin panes and diagonal glazing bars in the upper corners. The first floor has three nine-over-six-pane sashes and the second floor has three four-over-eight-pane sashes. The single-storey block at the left end features pilasters and a parapet, with a half-glazed door to the left and a small-pane window to the right.

The east return of the main block, which overlooks a lane between this building and Nos 2 & 3 Parliament Street, is executed in a slightly plainer style. The first and second floor platbands continue around with an additional attic floor level platband. A central doorway has a doorcase with panelled pilasters, cornice and panelled reveals, with a recessed four-panel door and blocked overlight. Windows match those on the front with chamfered embrasures. The ground floor window to the right is a round-headed small-pane sash with spoke glazing bars. The first and second floor centre windows are blind with segmental arch heads, as is a blind round-headed window at attic level. The rear elevation retains all its original sashes, including a round-headed stair window with spoke glazing bars.

The rear wing has a rounded corner with corbelling above. The attached stables, set at right angles to the rear, comprise six bays with a slate gabled roof and pierced ridge tiles. Two stable doors and loft doors above are visible, along with two ground floor windows and one window at each end. The rear elevation facing the town car park (formerly a brick field) contains seven blind recesses on the ground floor, two blocked loft doors and four blind loft recesses.

The interior has been altered on the ground floor, though features of interest may survive elsewhere in the building.

This building was part of a planned development around 1836 that involved relocating the market from the High Street and constructing contemporary associated buildings surrounding it, including the Ship, shops in Market Street and this public house.