BLACK FRIAR PUBLIC HOUSE

BLACK FRIAR PUBLIC HOUSE, BLACKFRIARS ROAD

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1386081
Date first listed:: 14-Apr-1994
List Entry Name:: BLACK FRIAR PUBLIC HOUSE
Statutory Address:: BLACK FRIAR PUBLIC HOUSE, BLACKFRIARS ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1386081
Date first listed:: 14-Apr-1994
List Entry Name:: BLACK FRIAR PUBLIC HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: BLACK FRIAR PUBLIC HOUSE, BLACKFRIARS ROAD

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: BLACK FRIAR PUBLIC HOUSE, BLACKFRIARS ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Salford (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SJ 83277 98897

Details

SALFORD

SJ89NW BLACKFRIARS ROAD 949-1/4/118 (South West side) 15/04/94 Black Friar Public House

II

Public house. Dated 1886 on left side; by William Ball of Manchester. Red brick with red sandstone dressings and some tile-hanging, slate roof. Vernacular Revival style. Modified L-plan. EXTERIOR: 2-and-a-half storeys over cellars, 3 bays, the first and third gabled; chamfered plinth, 3 string courses, steeply-pitched gables with oversailing verges, the upper parts tile-hung with small pentices over the attic windows, Ground floor has a broad lintel band to the first and second bays, each of which has an entrance with moulded surround, flattened ogee head, that in the second bay with a swan-necked pediment over. The first bay has one window to the left, the second bay has 2, and the third bay has a tripartite window, all sashed. At first floor the second bay has a canted oriel of stone with mullions and transom, and a band on the corbel with the words: "YOU MAY GO FURTHER AND FARE WORSE"; the first and third bays have tripartite windows, each with an extrados of red brick and carved stone tympanum, that to the left depicting a friar displaying a banner with the words "THE BLACK FRIAR" and that to the right including a shield with corn sheaves and bees, lettered below "BLACKFRIARS" "OLD SCHOOL". The gables of the outer bays have 3-light mullioned windows; the centre has a flat-roofed 4-light dormer. Left return wall has a tall chimney corbelled from first floor and breaking the eaves, with a stone plaque at its base inscribed "Rebuilt AD 1886". INTERIOR: some original fittings and plan elements. Entrance lobby with door to left to vault, ahead door with cut and etched glass. Hall has altered curved bar and a Jacobean style stair. Parlour has 2 altered lobby screens, fixed upholstered seating, bell pushes and fireplace, vault has simple fixed upholstered seating and a modern opening to remodelled area to rear.

Listing NGR: SJ8327798897

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Legacy System number:: 471505
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.