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The Green Dragon was situated at 6 Church Street. This grade-II* listed pub closed in February 2023.
We are delighted to assure you, that as the new landlady here, the pub has been back open since mid April 2023.
Victoria MacDonald (May 2023)
Listed building details:
Public House, originally probably a shop. Substantially mid C15 with later alterations. Timber-framed with flint and brick. Plaintiled roofs. Standard town hall-house plan. Forms a gabled 2-storey and dormer attic street range parallel to road with a jettied upper floor. Return walls also jettied, that to south now rebuilt without jetty. 2 storey and dormer attic cross wing extends to rear, almost full width, jettied to both sides and rear. Mid C19 brick 2 storey wing abuts rear of this cross wing, continuing building line and absorbing rear jetty, which survives internally. Facade to street with a pointed-arched doorway to left and a studded plank door. To its right are 3 pointed arches and a fourth in east return, formerly the open arcade of a shop: moulded jambs and now glazed. To left of door is a 4-light hollow and roll-moulded mullioned window with renewed leaded glazing. Bowtell and casement cornice under jetty which is supported by knuckle braces to left and an arch-braced corner post to the right. Close-studded upper floor with geometric plaster decoration. Two 4-light windows, that to left with a King mullion. Gabled roof with one gabled dormer boasting cusped bargeboards. C20 rebuilt internal gable end stack serving inserted fireplace in north wall of east room, the flue corbelled out under east return jetty. East side of cross wing close studded above a 10-light (ten) mullioned window with a King mullion. Ovolo mouldings. Above studding, situated under eaves, is a 6-light mullioned window also with a King mullion and exhibiting roll and fillet mouldings. Gabled roof carrying a gabled tower dormer with a 2-light casement. Partly external north gable end stack. West side of cross wing with a door to right (leading directly into former hall) and a 4-light mullioned window to left with 3 opening C18 iron casements. Mortice holes indicate that this is a former 6-light mullioned window with a hood and a projecting sill, i.e. a shallow oriel, probably indicating the dais window. North wall of cross wing rebuilt late C18 in flint, as is west gable of front range. Rear wing. Brick. Late C18. Corrugated tile roof. 2 storeys. Irregular bay system, various windows and 2 doorways to ground floor, 3 sashes with glazing bars to first floor. Gabled roof. Interior. Original plan virtually intact and compromised only by obvious timber partitions said to be of 1930s, which are ignored for the purposes of this description only. Front door leads to passage to hall in rear cross wing. On the left of passage is a 4-centred doorway, at the end another, opening into hall itself. On the right is an inserted door leading into the present lounge bar, formerly the shop area with the open arcade. This has an inserted fireplace in the east wall, a plain central bridging beam and a prominent dragon beam. A 4-centred door leads from this room into the original hall at the rear, adjacent to that from the passage. Hall, now the back parlour, with a wide rebuilt fireplace occupying the north wall with a C20 mantelpiece supported on 3 grotesque corbels of C20 origin although medieval inspiration. To its left is a cupboard, formerly the site of the winder to the solar. To its right is a stone, hollow-chamfered arched doorway leading to the C15 exterior. The wall plate above fireplace, that to the south side of the hall opposite and the bridging beam between have crenellated decorations and they define the original extent of the room, disappearing here and there behind the C20 partitions. First floor details largely removed. One blocked 4-centred doorway survives, chamfered bridging beams, some jowled principal studs. Roof of front range has renewed butt purlins, overlaid. Cross wing roof rebuilt with clasped purlins and collars. Interior of brick C18 rear wing has the north jetty to the rear (north) of the Hall.
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Picture source: Hania Franek