Carpenters Arms, Including Garden Wall On South Side

ILSINGTON ILSINGTON SX 87 NW 3/125 Carpenters Arms, including garden - wall on south side

GV II

Public house. C16, with later additions. Solid rendered walls, probably of stone or cob. Slated roof; extension to north covered with corrugated iron. Thick rendered chimneystack in each gable-wall; smaller rendered stack, probably of brick, at south end of west side-wall. Original plan uncertain, but probably had 2 rooms with gable-fireplaces; lean-to added along west side and further addition at north end. 2 storeys. 3-window front to east, with 1-window extension to north. South gable end front, which now contains the main entrance, is 2 windows wide. Windows have C19 wood casements, nearly all of them with glazing bars. Doorway in centre of south gable-wall has C20 wooden porch. Garden wall abutting building at south end is included in listing; it is of granite and slatestone rubble and curves inward at south-west corner to admit a low platform, probably the remains of a mounting block. Interior not inspected, except for the bar occupying the south ground-storey room and the lean-to along west side. Gable fireplace in south room has plain monolithic granite jambs with C20 lintel; oven in the back has stone framed opening. Main upper-floor beam is double ogee-moulded on south side with an ogee and 2 hollows on the north side; step-stops at east end. Against the stack is a half-beam with ogee and hollow moulding, also with step-stops at east end. Within the lean-to, in the east wall, is an old plank door with wooden latch.

Listing NGR: SX7858176116