THE PAUL PRY PUBLIC HOUSE AND ATTACHED REAR WALL

THE PAUL PRY PUBLIC HOUSE AND ATTACHED REAR WALL, 6, THE BUTTS

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1390183
Date first listed:: 17-Dec-1991
List Entry Name:: THE PAUL PRY PUBLIC HOUSE AND ATTACHED REAR WALL
Statutory Address:: THE PAUL PRY PUBLIC HOUSE AND ATTACHED REAR WALL, 6, THE BUTTS

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1390183
Date first listed:: 17-Dec-1991
List Entry Name:: THE PAUL PRY PUBLIC HOUSE AND ATTACHED REAR WALL
Statutory Address 1:: THE PAUL PRY PUBLIC HOUSE AND ATTACHED REAR WALL, 6, THE BUTTS

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:: THE PAUL PRY PUBLIC HOUSE AND ATTACHED REAR WALL, 6, THE BUTTS

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

County:: Worcestershire
District:: Worcester (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SO 84801 55121

Details

WORCESTER

SO8455SE THE BUTTS 620-1/12/596 (North side) 17/12/91 No.6 The Paul Pry Public House and attached rear wall

II

Public house and attached rear wall. Dated 1901. Architect Frederick Hughes for R Allen and Sons, Brewers. Red brick in Flemish bond with limestone ashlar bands and architraves, hipped plain tile roof with decorative, pierced ridge tiles; off-centre right ridge stack with moulded band, cornice and pots, similar stack to rear at right and brick stack with oversailing course and pots to rear range. PLAN: occupies an irregular corner site and is wedge-shaped on plan with right end canted towards street; central lobby with lounge to left, smaller bar to right and stair hall and services at rear; rearrange at left with wall adjoining. Art Nouveau detailing. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, 3 first-floor windows. The narrow central bay breaks forward with small gable. Ashlar details: ovolo-moulded architrave to entrance with stepped keystone, pilasters, cornice and segmental pediment; continuous sill band, ovolo-moulded except plain chamfer to sills, surmounted by further similar pilasters to left and to windows, with flower to 'frieze'; continuous frieze raised over pilasters, cornice has ovolo-, triple step-, and ovolo-moulding. Large stone 4-light segmental oriels to first floor (outer bays) with enriched foliate soffits on acanthus console brackets with cartouches, torus-moulded mullions and transoms and in ovolo-moulded surrounds. Continuous band at sill level. Central window has plain apron and similarly moulded mullions and transoms. The main entablature cornice breaks forward and is plain over the oriels and central window, otherwise frieze is enriched with foliate and inverted shell motifs; ovolo-moulded cornice. Ground floor: to either side of entrance a pair of mullion and transom windows with panelled timber mullions and dentil transoms, 'fanlight' described to upper rectangular lights. Central entrance: panelled door with central circular motif, fanlight. First floor has 6/1 sashes (with transom), gable over central window. Right return canted to face street: the entablature and strings continue; full height basket-shaped bay has similar pilastered surround and similar 3-light window with timber mullions and transoms to ground floor and 1:2:1 windows to first floor with 6/1 sashes; gable over. Windows to bar at right have etched glass denoting 'BAR'. Rear to Infirmary Walk: main range of 2 storeys, 2 first-floor windows and single-storey range at right (west). Ashlar details as front facade. Similar 2-light mullion-and-transom windows and similar entrance with segmental pediment. First floor has two 2-light mullion-and-transom windows with 6/1 sashes. Continuous decorated frieze, plain over windows. INTERIOR: original interior largely intact. Entrance hall and lobby have glazed decorative tiles in panels with dado, lower panels with foliage in relief and with frieze; upper panels with floral motif. Double doors with etched glass lead to lobby with further tiling. 5-panel doors, one with decorative fanlight. Floors of marble intarsia to hall and bar. Lincrusta moulded ceilings have 'strapwork' motif. Lounge bar (to left) retains lincrusta frieze and embossed ceiling; benches around walls; timber chimneypiece incorporating mirror, with cast-iron grate and decorative tile surround with masks. Bar: door with etched glass; benches incorporated into panelled dado; fireplace; quadrant main bar with panelled front with consoles and mahogany counter, elaborate bar back has balusters to round-arch mirrors with centrepiece pedimented upshot with clock, balustrade with surmounting urns. Staircase to rear wall has rod on vase balusters. Decorative cornices and friezes said to remain to first floor. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: wall to rear has brick pilasters on plinth, ashlar cornice, parapet with cornice, ramped down over entrance; off-centre left entrance a renewed plank door under cambered arch. A very good example of a purpose-built late Victorian public house, retaining many original features.

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Legacy System number:: 489153
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.