Quicksilver Mail, Public House

Description

This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.

ST51SW YEOVIL CP HENDFORD HILL (West side)

3/29 Quicksilver Mail, Public House

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- II

Inn, of C18 with later modifications. Ashlar Ham stonework, with Welsh slate roof between coped gables (two bottom courses of stone slates remain); brick chimney stacks at each end, that on South-west side widens at base, probably for oven. 2-storeys 3-bay facade, with (later) central doorway and 5 steps, crowned by shallow stone hood on modern brackets; on ground floor the sash windows to either side of the door had 20-panes: in each case the lower glazing bars removed: the windows set in architraves: the 3-first floor windows each have a central 12- pane window with 4-pane sidelight set in raised mullioned surrounds.

Interior not inspected. The 'Quicksilver' was one of the fastest London/Exeter mail coaches in the 1830's, which is said to have changed horses here.

Originally 3-storey - lowest buried by raising of road level).

Listing NGR: ST5483814943

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This is part of the Series: IOE01/0882 IOE Records taken by Brian Haigh; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

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© Mr Brian Haigh. Source: Historic England Archive

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project