The Fleece, Northallerton

A ride out today down to North Yorkshire.  The first thing to take my fancy (after the bacon sarny at Sam Turner's) was the Fleece Inn, the oldest pub in town.  Rumour has it Charles Dickens stayed there - along with most other places in England ;-)

It started life as a house, probably C15, with later alterations. Medieval sandstone, timber framing, pantile roofs. 2 storeys plus lofts, gabled range to left with gabled cross wing projecting forward to right, rear wing to left. 

To left, 2-storey square bay window with C19 casement windows and plain tile pent roof. Central part-glazed door below plain tile pent-roofed porch. To right wing, 2-storey square bay window with 5-light double-chamfered mullion window below segmental relieving arch on ground floor, 3-light double-chamfered mullion window on first floor, hipped plain tile roof; left return has ground floor 2-light mullion window with stanchion.

Both front gables are timber framed, each has a 3-light wooden mullion window with old leaded cames with quarry panes. To right of projecting bay on right wing, small porch across angle has ground-floor 2-light chamfered mullion window and first-floor 2-light old chamfered mullion window. Stack at right end. Interior: salt box at back of fire wall in ground floor room to right; post on padstone in left bar; rear wing of post-and-beam construction, with stop-chamfered first-floor beams.


Thanks to British Listed Buildings for the detailed information.
britishlistedbuildings.co.uk