The Roundhouse, Wheatsheaf Buildings

Description

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

SF 91 NW LITTLEBOROUGH THE SQUARE 1/65 The Roundhouse, Wheatsheaf - Buildings

- II Public house and shops. Early 1860s. Rock-faced stone with slate roof. Semi-circular plan with 3 storeys and a total of 10 bays. Continuous sill and impost bands and a pierced parapet with articulating dies above the eaves cornice.

Single and paired sash windows with round-arched heads and pointed hoodmoulds on the ground floor, shouldered heads on the first floor and arched heads on the second floor. 2 shop windows on north side. Doors have arches, shouldered arches or in one case colonnettes with naturalistic capitals supporting a cusped arch and multi-foiled overlight. Ridge chimney stacks. Interior much altered but the pub retains some original features - fireplaces, plaster cornices and staircase with cast-iron balusters. Directories record Robert Hirst as the publican of the Wheat Sheaf in 1821, the name going as far back as 1780.

Listing NGR: SD9370516391

Content

This is part of the Series: IOE01/1091 IOE Records taken by Pamela Jackson; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

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© Ms Pamela Jackson. Source: Historic England Archive

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project