Building record 1332/0/1 - Harrington Arms Public House

<1> English Heritage, 2005, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 58603 (Digital Archive). SCH4666.

Public house: Late seventeenth or early eighteenth century with nineteenth century alterations and additions.

MATERIALS: red English garden wall-bond brick with stone slate roof. End and ridge stacks.

PLAN: large square late seventeenth or early eighteenth century block on right with late long cross wing to left with further addition in the angle between. Public house area with bars leading off either side of through corridor and located in both earlier and later portions.

EXTERIOR: earlier part three storey with rendered brick plinth. two-bays, two cambered headed casement windows to each floor. Between storeys and also set in each gable, string course consisting of projecting row of stretchers and below this cogged bricks. Various blocked windows inside and rear walls. Nineteenth century wing two-bay, two storey and containing doorway adjacent to earlier portion.

INTERIOR: Bar servery located to right of entrance in narrow room that leads to two further public areas further right. Bar counter with simple tongue-and-groove boarding. Tap room on left of entrance with fixed seating. Red and black quarry tiling in corridor and tap room. Staircase in seventeenth/eighteenth century area original and with pierced splat balusters. Bar counter and back refitted late twentieth century. This public house is a rare example of an unspoilt nineteenth century rural public house.