Seven Stars Alehouse / Victoria Place With Attached Wall To North West

Description

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

NU 2410 ALNMOUTH NORTHUMBERLAND STREET (East side)

20/25 Victoria Place (Nos.1-4 consecutive) 31.12.69 with attached wall to north-west GV II

Terrace of four cottages, and attached wall. Late C17 or early C18, refenestrated and outshut added in mid-C19. Roughly-coursed rubble with large roughly-shaped quoins; cut dressings sometimes replaced by cement. Welsh slate roof with yellow brick stacks.

1 storey + attics, 4 bays. Each pair of cottages shares a central doorway; vertical-panelled centre-opening doors in old moulded surrounds, with flat- pointed arches within square frames, and cornices above. 3-light mullioned windows; 2-light windows in gabled half-dormers above. All windows in chamfered surrounds. Coped end gables on moulded kneelers; ridge and right end stacks. Right return shows 2-light window with single-light window above.

Left return shows single-light windows to each floor and blocked doorway.

Attached wall to left, with doorway in chamfered surround, joins Hindmarsh Hall (q.v.).

Interiors: Some cottages have old chamfered beams exposed; small timber newel stairs in corner of ground-floor rooms. No. 1, once the Seven Stars alehouse, has the internal timber sill of its ground-floor window incised with graffiti, including sailing ships.



Listing NGR: NU2467210366

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This is part of the Series: IOE01/0418 IOE Records taken by Peter Oakley Clarke; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

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© Mr Peter Oakley Clarke. Source: Historic England Archive

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project