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New Inn Hotel
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Picture source: Hania Franek |
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The New Inn Hotel was situated on
Market Place. This grade-II listed pub was known as The Old Coach Inn at time of closure in
2014. |
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Listed
building details: |
Hotel. Early C19, altered mid C19;
late C19 alterations at rear. Possibly incorporates parts of a C17/C18
building. Solid rendered walls. Hipped slate roof. Old brick chimney on
ridge; others at rear.
Plan of 2 or 3 rooms deep and 3 rooms wide with off-centre entrance-passage
leading to staircase behind the middle room. 3 storeys with 2 lower storeys
at rear, where the ground falls away; 4-window range. Doorway between the 2
left-hand ground-storey windows. The 2 upper-storey windows to right are set
slightly apart, as if this side of the building was a later addition.
6-panelled front door with deep porch having columns with foliated capitals.
Above the porch and extending across the whole building at first-floor
level, is a balcony with patterned iron railing (right-hand end missing).
Windows have moulded architraves and mostly barred sashes; 8 over 8 panes in
ground storey, 6 over 6 panes in second storey, 3 over 6 panes in third
storey. The 2 left-hand second-storey windows differ in having French
windows with 4 panes per light. Between the 2 windows above is an inserted
2-light wood casement with 3-panes per light. Sill-band in second storey,
partly concealed by later balcony. Modillioned eaves cornice. Left side-wall
to Bridge Street has windows with 6-paned sashes and moulded architraves,
some of the sashes paired within a single architrave. The rear part is a
storey lower with a C17/C18-style modillioned eaves-cornice. The rear
elevation has been considerably remodelled in late C19, including a gabled
bay window with exposed timber-framing (clearly visible from the other side
of the river).
Interior: ground storey has been considerably altered in late C20, but
original wooden open-well stair survives with thin square balusters and
shaped step-ends. Upper storeys not inspected. |
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Other Photos |
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Date of photo: 1997 |
Picture source: Clive Schneidau |
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Picture courtesy: Darkstar
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