Tudor Hotel

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BRIDGWATER

ST2936NE ST MARY STREET 736-1/11/189 (South side) 24/03/50 No.21 Tudor Hotel (Formerly Listed as: ST MARY STREET (South side) No.21 Tudor Cafe)

GV II

Hotel. Late C16 or early C17. Refronted and extended in early C19. Applied timber-framing, probably c1920, over stucco to first floor, painted brick and stone to the ground floor; brick rear left wing; zig-zag pantile roof with brick stacks to gable ends. Originally 3-roomed L-shaped plan with rear courtyard, now built over; early C19 rear left wing making U-plan. 2 storeys; 3-window range. The symmetrical first floor is jettied and has three C19 horned sash windows with margin panes articulated by a pattern of 5 timber trefoil-headed panels with quatrefoils above and diagonals below. Beneath the windows are horizontal ornamented terracotta panels. The brick ground floor has 2 late C19 horned 2/2-pane sash windows to left, a c1600 oak door to right of centre, a C20 leaded shop window to right flanked by C19 panelled pilasters. To the far right the wall steps back to the original line, and has painted coursed rubblestone corbelling out to original line of jetty. The studded Tudor-arched door is very wide with strap hinges behind hollow moulding to 7 vertical panels; the rear of it has heavy horizontal planks, a wrought-iron bolt and lock. The Tudor-arched architrave is chamfered and stopped above C19 base cladding and a bootscraper to right. Moulded brackets support the jetty. INTERIOR: C18 and C19 panelled doors. The 2 front rooms are divided by a through-passage angled to the left at the end, the pattern of C17 plasterwork to ceiling is irregular and without a border, suggesting that it has been repositioned. Room to left has a hollow-chamfered lateral beam, now with C20 central support, and open fireplace with herringbone tiling to the back. Room to right is fully panelled, mostly with reset c1600 work. It has a small cornice below frieze of horizontal panels articulated by short pilasters, all below a deeper wooden cornice and plaster frieze of undulating fronds with fruit and flowers, heavily painted. Hollow-moulded beams to the quartered ceiling separate moulded geometric panels of 8-pointed stars with borders and large fleurs-de-lys in various panels, all mostly late C19. The flat-arched open fireplace to right has 3 ovolo mouldings to the intrados stopped at the base, and a C19 overmantel. The wing to rear right, angled to left, has late C16 or C17 ovolo-moulded 4-light first-floor window to former courtyard and open fire on right-hand angled wall with C19 overmantel and late C16 or C17 stop-chamfered bressumer and jambs; the room above has a Tudor-arched fireplace with sunk spandrels using the same stack. The roof structure remains inside the C19 wider frame, and has late C16 or early C17 collar and queen-post trusses with butt purlins and mortices for wind-braces. It is probably of elm, collar braced with massive principle rafters and trenched purlins. Roof in rear right wing not accessible but noted as having substantial principal rafters. Early C19 collar-truss roof in rear left wing.

Listing NGR: ST2988536914

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