Description

CROOK AND WILLINGTON CHURCH STREET
NZ 13 NE
(South side)
Crook
24/23 Nos. 3 and 4
(premises occupied
by J.G. Forster and
Ye Olde Horse Shoe
Inn)
GV II

Shop and public house. Late C18 with mid-C19 shop and public house fronts;
public house dated 1822 for C EI I over door. Shop sandstone rubble with ashlar
quoins; public house painted render with painted ashlar dressings. Welsh slate
roof with brick chimneys. 2 storeys, 3 wide bays and left extension of one
storey, one bay. Shop at left has pilasters and entablature framing hardboard-
covered door with 2-pane overlight; shop window to left of door has 2 rows of 5
panes. Paired sashes on first floor have rendered jambs and painted projecting
stone sill. Eaves gutter board. Public house at right has low 2-panelled door
to right of centre in raised stone surround with stone-bracketed moulded hood
EI
over lintel incised C 1822 I. At left are top-hung_casements in style of late
C19 sashes; at right one wide and one narrow window, separated by a short
pilaster and framed by pilasters and fascia with fruit-carved brackets.
Cornice supports first-floor canted bay. Pierced 2-panel shutters to left
ground-floor window. Roof over 2 left bays with left-and central banded
chimneys; roof of lower pitch over right bay has right end chimney. Left
extension has pent roof; altered from 2-storey building. Public house included
for group value.

Listing NGR: NZ1664835581

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26568505

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Recommended Books

• 
  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
• 
  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)