Description

NEWPORT MILL SQUARE
SZ 59 SW
14/119 (north side)

WOOTTON BRIDGE
The Sloop Inn and
attached outbuilding
with former shop

GV II

Public house and attached outbuilding, formerly mill, with former shop. Pub mid
C18,altered;outbuilding late, C18 early C19 altered with early-mid C19 extension. Pub of
painted brick, the front clad in mathematical tile in Flemish bond; plain tile
roof. Outbuilding of red brick with blue headers in Flemish bond, rendered at
front, with right return partly hung with Welsh slate; addition of red brick in
Flemish bond variant (2 stretches, 1 header) pebble-dashed at front; Welsh slate
roofs. Pub 2 storeys with attic, 3 bays. Outbuilding, attached to left of 2
storeys with attic, 5 bays, the left bay an addition, shallower at rear, projec-
ting forward as gabled wing at front. Pub: entrance to right of centre: C20
small-paned glazed door in architrave having pilasters with plinths and capitals,
frieze and cornice; 12-pane sash above; 12-pane sashes to outer bays apart from
16-pane sash to 1st floor left, all windows in reveals. External end stacks to
front roof pitch; another stack at right end in rear roof pitch. Outbuilding: is
attached to Pub by mid-C20 link block which is not of special interest. Left-hand
bay has shop front; one window to each floor; right corner canted with a
ground-floor and lst-floor window; all openings boarded up; coped parapet. Main
range has a C20 garage door and C20 double door flanking on horned 12-pane sash;
and on 1st floor a boarded-up window, a 12-pane sash, the Pub sign-board and a
4-pane sash. Attic has 3 boarded-up, hipped-roof dormers with Welsh slate
cheeks, Roof hipped at left end. Two ridge stacks and one to rear left. Rear:
extensive C20 additions not of special interest. Outbuilding retains a board door
on left and 2 original lst-floor window openings, all having flat brick arches; 3
dormers as front. Returns of Pub each have a 3-light small-pane gable window and
right return a small ground-floor window either side of external stack. Interior:
outbuilding has wooden sprial stair and 2-light 12-pane wooden casements to the
attic dormers. Ground floor of Pub remodelled. C20; 1st floor not inspected.

Listing NGR: SZ5468692008

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26527483

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Care and Repair
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)