Crown Hotel And Stable To The Rear

CREWKERNE

ST4409 SOUTH STREET 876-1/7/164 (South side) 06/09/74 No.32 Crown Hotel and stable to the rear

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Public house. C17, remodelled C18 and C19. MATERIALS: limestone rubble, steep-pitched slate roof with stepped stone coping and moulded kneelers; brick stacks to gable ends and centre of ridge, that to the right is truncated. PLAN: 3-unit plan with C19 rear left wing. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; 4-window range. Windows to the first-floor are 2-light casements under wooden lintels at eaves level. To right-of-centre is a carriage entrance and to the right of that is an mid C19 shopfront; this has steps up to a half-glazed door with overlight, flanked by 2-light windows of 2 panes each. To the left of the carriage entrance is a small rectangular bay with an early C19 shop window of 5 rows of 5 panes under a moulded cornice with consoles to the corners; beneath it is a barred window to the basement. To the far left is a 2-light casement above cellar doors to a half-basement. The early C19 rear wing is 3 storeys; 3-window range, all 3-light casements. The passage to the courtyard has a heavy chamfered cross beam with an ornamental stop to the front end resting on a huge wooden lintel to the rear and supported by an iron bracket to the front. INTERIOR: the room above the archway has timber-studded partition to an axial wall. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: to the rear of the courtyard is a C19 two-storey stable block, rubblestone with a pantile roof, a hayloft door to first-floor left-of-centre, a 2-light casement under a flat gauged stone arch to ground-floor left and 2 wide C20 garage doors to the right.

Listing NGR: ST4430409499