Foresters Arms Inn

CARLTON TOWN VILLAGE STREET SE 0684-0784 (south side) 16/93 Foresters Arms Inn 13.2.67 - II

Inn. C17 with early C18 alterations and C19 addition. Coursed rubble, stone slate roof. 2 storeys with rear outshut, 2:2 bays, with added cross-range on right. Originally a hearth-passage plan. From left: ground-floor blocked chamfered fire window; board door in chamfered quoined surround; 1 bay of C20 casement windows, in C18 ashlar architraves, formerly 3-light flat-faced mullion; quoins at right end of original building; board door with C20 casement window above; C20 casement window in wide quoined doorway with deep slab lintel, probably formerly arched; gabled cross-range with board door and 4-pane sash window on ground floor, two 4-pane sash windows on first floor. Stacks over fire window, quoins, and on gable apex of cross-range. Rear: single-light landing window with original lead cames. Interior: in ground-floor room to right of door, C18 fireplace with cyma reversa corbels supporting segmental-arched lintel scored to appear joggled and stop-chamfered beams; very crude branches forming beams in outshut; stone staircase at far end of hearth-passage. Named from the Coverdale Forestxers' Friendly Society, formed in 1816 as the Banks of Cover branch of the Ancient Order of Foresters, although the branch later broke away.

Listing NGR: SE0674784660