Jolly Sailor Inn

SW 86 NW OGWELL EAST OGWELL VILLAGE

4/17 Jolly Sailor Inn

23.8.55 GV II

Public House, possibly the former Church House (Devon Record Office Q/S 65/2-7: the East Ogwell Inn was called the Church House Inn in the 1820s). C16 or C17. Rendered stone, possible with some cob. Thatched roof, gabled each end. 2 storeys. Irregular fenestration consisting of C19 wood casements. 2 doorways in ground storey, each with a window to left of it. Over the doorways and the window between them a slated pent roof on wood brackets over the pent roof and a little way to right at sill level in second storey a moulded stringcourse. 4 second- storey windows grouped in centre. To left of them a wrought-iron bracket for inn sign. Remnants of corbel-table under eaves of roof. Stone stack with later brick shaft in each gable, the eastern stack particularly large with offsets. Interior: ground storey has heavy chamfered ceiling-beams, some with straight-cut stops said to have been a through passage leading from the left-hand front door, but no structural evidence remains. Small fireplace in west gable with chamfered wood lintel having straight-cut stops. In east gable a large fireplace with chamfered wood lintel and a large stone-lined oven having a rectangular stone opening. In second storey a stud-and-panel partition, the studs chamfered and with indeterminate stops. Roof-trusses (plastered) are are mostly, if not entirely, side-pegged jointed crucks.

Listing NGR: SX8384469984