Listed Building: WILD BOAR INN (1130516)

BEESTON C.P. TARPORLEY ROAD SJ 55 NE 6/18 Wild Boar Inn II House, now public house and restaurant. C19 with extensive early C20 additions. Timber framed with rendered brick additions. Three storeys with tower of 4 storeys. Entrance front: Central portion of 2 storeys with third storey added in early C20. Similar single storey wing at left with early C20 storey above and mid/late C19 wing at right. Central portion of three bays with chevron-patterning to ground floor. Door at left with cambered lintel and projecting porch to right of centre with moulded decoration of C19 date. Three 4-light mullioned windows, each with a transom. Coved jetty to first floor which has decorative quatrefoils to lower row of panels of small framing and chevron patterning above. Two coved oriels at left with 5-light mullioned windows, each with a transom. Five-light window to right of these. Coving to second floor with decorative brackets, quatrefoils, and quarter circles to both rows of small-framing. Window of 8 lights at left with mullions and a transom. Similar window of 7 lights to right with 2 transoms. Each window has a gable over with decorated small framing and decorated bargeboards. Octagonal lantern to ridge at left with copper spire of double pitch. To the left is the 2-storey wing. This has a rendered plinth and 5 and 3-light mullioned windows to left and right respectively. The first floor has 4-light mullioned windows at right and left with a projecting jettied central portion supported on decorated figurehead brackets which contains a 4-light mullioned window with a transom and a circular window above. Octagonal belvedere above this with heavy moulded posts to the corners with arched openings between and an ogee dome above with a weather vane. To the right of centre is a short single-storey wing connecting with the mid/late C19 2-storey rendered wing which has two ground floor bays and three first floor 3-light casements and a gabled projecting wing at the right with decorated timber framing to the gable and decorated bargeboards. At the left is a tower with hipped roof. The rear central block has a recessed bay at left with a tripartite ground floor window of 4 lights with 2 to either side, all mullioned with a transom. Five-light first floor window above. Jettied second storey with window of 7 x 3 panes with decorated quarter circles to the gable and decorative bargeboards. To right of this the ground floor has two 4-light windows with mullions and transoms and a porch at right with quatrefoil decoration. There is a coved jetty to the first floor which has two coved oriel windows of 5-lights, each with a transom. The second floor window is of 8 lights with mullions and two transoms. Decorative framing to gable above which has C19 decorated bargeboards. Listing NGR: SJ5578459144