Old Country House Inn

DARTMOUTH

SX874510 MARKET STREET 673-1/8/172 (East side) 23/10/72 No.5 Old Country House Inn (Formerly Listed as: MARKET STREET No.5 Royal Union Inn)

GV II

Public house. Probably c1830, modernised in the late C19. Mixed construction; some plastered brick and stone rubble, and slate-hung timber-framing; rear stack with brick chimneyshaft and some old pots; slate roof. PLAN: L-plan, with a later lean-to 2-storey section to left of front. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys; probably original symmetrical 2-window front upset by lean-to bay to left. Ground floor has a very good late C19 glazed tile front: the irregular 4 windows (now C20) are separated by single or paired panelled pilasters of pale and darker green tile; right of centre a decorative tile panel advertises Star Ales from the Plymouth Brewery; at the right end the doorway is recessed and canted across the corner (part-glazed double doors) and the corner of the upper floor is supported on a fluted ceramic column with Corinthian capital. The same style is continued 2 bays up the Union Street return. Fascia interrupted by triglyphs, one over each pilaster. Upper floors slate-hung including a band of scallop-shaped slates at second-floor level. Windows are late C19 horned 4-pane sashes. Pediment over cornice supported on pairs of brackets and is painted with the legend "Royal Union Inn", the former name. Right return in the same style as the front, but only has windows in the rear bay including a horned second-floor 4-pane sash. Hipped roof. INTERIOR: Much altered with C20 stairs and exposed framing. HISTORY: This area was developed in the 1820s and 1830s on the site of the infilled tidal mill pool and contains a good group of early C19 buildings around the Market Square.

Listing NGR: SX8769051424