Building record 524/0/1 - Pickering Arms Inn, Thelwall

<1> English Heritage, 2005, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 59033 (Digital Archive). SCH4666.

Inn, seventeenth century, altered. Oak small-framed, brick-nogged, with extensions in brick and sandstone; grey slate roof. Two storeys, T-shaped. The leg of the T has small-frame on 1.5 metre brick plinth, with lean-to extension of brick and stone, probably eighteenth century, to rear. To the front are two small-pane casements to each storey and a lobby-entrance under a (probably early twentieth century) lean-to porch on brackets. The head of the T, probably originally stabling, but converted to licensed and living accommodation, is of brick with small-pane casements with two boarded loading-doors in gable to former hayloft and two blocked loophole vents in side wall. The interior is altered.

<2> Various, Various, Oral communication to the HER, Edwards R 01/08/2019 (Oral Communication). SCH2330.

On the northern gable end is the following text comprising letters attached to the timber framing: In the year 923 King Edward the Elder founded a cyty here and called it Thelwall.

<3> See map for surveyor, c.1837-51, Cheshire Tithe Maps and Awards, EDT 390/2, 1845 (Maps and Plans). SCH3266.

The building is depicted on this map and is described in the award as: Public House sign of the Pickering Arms, Stable, Shippon and Garden.