Description

1. NARROWGATE
5330
(North East Side)
No 32
(Ye Olde Cross Public House
"Dirty Bottles")
NU 1813 SE 1/68 20.2.52.
II GV
2.
Right hand part of 2 windows C17; left hand part of 3 windows later with early
C19 attic storey. Two storeys and attic. Painted dressed stone. The right hand
part has a moulded eaves cornice, modern tiles and raking top former with a Yorkshire
sash window. Two light casement windows. Stone bracketted hood over doorway.
Above is a shield upside down with the de Vesci arms (a cross patonce, hence the
name of the inn), probably C13. On the ground floor is an old bow window containing
the dirty bottles said to have been left there in the early C19 and by local superstition
kept there (hence the nickname of the inn). The left hand part has a built up
gabled dormer; plate glass sashes on 1st floor and attic, a glazing bar sash window
on ground floor to right and on left a modern recessed bow; a blocked doorway between
them. Gable light to attic on left. Slate roof with moulded cast iron gutter.

Listing NGR: NU1856313471

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26293359

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Recommended Books

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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living