The New Inn

Public house, early to mid-C18, re-fronted early C20.

MATERIALS: stuccoed brick to front elevation, ashlar dressings, with a pitched and sprocketed roof clad in grey/green slates.

PLAN: narrow sub-rectangular plan.

EXTERIOR: the two storey, five-bay front elevation with a rendered brick plinth is fitted with an early-C20 ground-floor public house front that has an ashlar fascia and a moulded cornice with raised lettering that reads: THE NEW INN. The fascia crosses the width of the building above a pair of ashlar mullioned and transom tripartite decorative Arts and Crafts leaded windows, set to either side of an ashlar Tudor-style double doorway. The doorway has a 4-centred moulded arch and a narrow oblong leaded fanlight, beneath a lintel with painted gold and red lettering that reads: WINES & SPIRITS, flanked by modern replica brass lanterns. It is closed by a pair of two-panel doors with canted top rails, each fitted with a single brass door knob and a lion head door knocker. The wall breaks forward slightly to the right-hand side and has a passageway entrance that is closed by a plank gate. The stained-glass windows have panels depicting shooting scenes. The first floor is stuccoed, and has five narrow segmental-headed flush-framed 24-light sashes with keystones, beneath deep eaves which support moulded cast-iron rainwater goods that drain into a square-section down pipe. The left-hand end of the pitched and sprocketed roof has a raised rendered brick verge, and there is an offset rendered ridge stack with four tall terracotta drawn chimney pots.

INTERIOR: the double entry canted and panelled porch has a terrazzo floor with the wording ‘New Inn’ in tiles. The panelled doors have brass handles, finger plates, and leaded lights. The two public rooms have bars with mullions which run up to deep glazed valences with leaded lights; the one to the former Smoke Room forms a shallow canted bay window. They are both fitted with built-in settles with Arts and Crafts-style detailed arms and legs.