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The Fleece Hotel was situated at 20 Front Street.  This grade-II listed pub is now in residential use. It was where they kept and displayed the Thomas Lipton Trophy ( the first 'World Cup') which West Auckland FC won by beating Juventus in Turin in 1909 and 1911. (ITV made a film about called 'A Captain's Tale'). The trophy was stolen about 30 years ago and replaced by a replica.
Source: John Moore
Listed building details:
Public house, now private house. Late C18, largely rebuilt mid C19. Painted render with painted brick cornice and painted ashlar quoins, plinth and dressings. Welsh slate roof with brick chimneys. 3 storeys, 2 windows. Entrance at right within structure of No.20B (qv). All glazing renewed. Painted plain surround to half-glazed door at right. Ground-floor sill band to 2 wide windows in painted rendered surrounds. Upper floors have tall windows with projecting stone sills and flat stone lintels, those on first floor with shallow segmental arches and on second floor with recessed flat pointed arches. Rusticated quoins. Dog-tooth brick eaves cornice. Roof has end chimneys, the right with dog-tooth cornice. Left return rendered. Included for group value.
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