Quicksilver Mail, Public House is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 October 1983. Public house. 1 related planning application.
Quicksilver Mail, Public House
- WRENN ID
- empty-vestry-briar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 October 1983
- Type
- Public house
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
ST51SW 3/29
YEOVIL CP HENDFORD HILL (West side)
Quicksilver Mail, Public House
- II
Inn, of C18 with later modifications. Ashlar Ham stonework, with Welsh slate roof between coped gables (two bottom courses of stone slates remain); brick chimney stacks at each end, that on South-west side widens at base, probably for oven. 2-storeys 3-bay facade, with (later) central doorway and 5 steps, crowned by shallow stone hood on modern brackets; on ground floor the sash windows to either side of the door had 20-panes: in each case the lower glazing bars removed: the windows set in architraves: the 3-first floor windows each have a central 12- pane window with 4-pane sidelight set in raised mullioned surrounds. Interior not inspected. The 'Quicksilver' was one of the fastest London/Exeter mail coaches in the 1830's, which is said to have changed horses here. Originally 3-storey - lowest buried by raising of road level).
Listing NGR: ST5484414936
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