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Latitude: 53.6915 / 53°41'29"N
Longitude: -1.3131 / 1°18'47"W
OS Eastings: 445454
OS Northings: 421896
OS Grid: SE454218
Mapcode National: GBR MT8R.HF
Mapcode Global: WHDC6.SGWV
Plus Code: 9C5WMMRP+JP
Entry Name: The Malt Shovel Public House
Listing Date: 29 July 1950
Last Amended: 15 November 1988
Grade: II*
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1135451
English Heritage Legacy ID: 342655
ID on this website: 101135451
Location: Pontefract, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, WF8
County: Wakefield
Electoral Ward/Division: Pontefract North
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Pontefract
Traditional County: Yorkshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): West Yorkshire
Church of England Parish: Pontefract St Giles with St Mary
Church of England Diocese: Leeds
Tagged with: Pub
PONTEFRACT CORN MARKET
SE 4521 NW
(south-west side)
7/16
No 1 (The Malt Shovel
29.7.50 Public House) (formerly
listed under Best Fair)
GV II+
Public house on site of older building. C14 cellar with late C19 public house above
altered in C20. 2 storeys and cellar, 4 first-floor windows. Public house: red
brick, faced with glazed tiles on ground floor and timber-framing on first floor;
Welsh slate roof. Ground floor; to right, wide passage opening through to rear; to
left segmental tripartite bow window and part-glazed door below overlight. First
floor: studding with central braces, interrupted by paired casement windows.
Windows and door have leaded glazing. Brick ridge stack to left of door. Interior,
cellar under front of building: two bays of sexpartite rib vaulting, the ashlar ribs
heavy and deeply chamfered, and running out into side walls, with a circular boss in
each bay, the northern one damaged, the southern one with fine face mask; ashlar
door suround has chamfered shouldered lintel, and is rebated for outward-opening
door. A flagged barrel-vaulted passage curves as it climbs up to stone steps at
rear of front range; bar has imported chamfered beams. The March 1968 Provisional
List compares the cellar with one in Malton and a finer one in Gloucester. Recorded
by West Yorkshire Archaeology Unit.
Listing NGR: SE4545421895
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