Listed Buildings
in Stoke-on-Trent and area
Greyhound Inn,
Penkhull
Area
Penkhull |
Street
Manor Court Street |
Heritage No.
112 A |
Grade
II |
Date Listed
19 April 1972 |
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Building:
Greyhound Inn |
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Location:
STOKE ON TRENT SJ84SE MANOR
COURT STREET, Penkhull |
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Description:
PROBABLY C16 ORIGIN, ORIGINAL TIMBER FRAME &
PART BRICK REFACED |
The Greyhound Inn -
Penkhull
Manor Court Street
photo: Steve Birks 2000
Public House, originally dwelling.
This inn
incorporates the former Courthouse of the Manor of
Newcastle-under-Lyme.
Plan and main structure largely of the late 16th
Century, but with later alterations, especially a partial rebuild
in 1936. Roughcast over partial timber frame, and brick, with
plain tiled roof. 2-storeyed, hall and cross wing in plan.
Gable cross wing to left, with 4-light mullioned
windows on each floor with flat hood-moulds with label stops. Door
in added lean-to porch in the angle of hall and cross wing,
backing on to stack, and probably the original doorway. Further
gabled porch in centre of main range, probably inserted in later
alterations making the facade symmetrical. It is flanked by
3-light casement windows, and 2 gabled dormers above, with ornate
bargeboards. Gable and axial stacks.
(The Victoria History of the Counties of England:
R.B.Pugh: Staffordshire: Oxford: 1963-).
With a history
stretching back to the sixteenth century, this fine old inn
incorporates the former Courthouse of the Manor of
Newcastle-under-Lyme. A listed building.
In the
Middle Ages, the Manorial Court was held in the Borough's castle.
With the passing years, that fortress grew increasingly unsafe
through neglect and the Court was transferred to Stoke-upon-Trent,
which remained the venue throughout the middle years of Elizabeth
I's reign. In the 1580s the Court was moved to the Greyhound where
it stayed, apart from brief alternations with Stoke, until 1817.
By 1829 the Court was being held at Stoke's Wheatsheaf Hotel. In
1854 it was on the move again, to Hanley.
The
Greyhound, now stuccoed, was largely rebuilt in 1936 with parts of
the original sixteenth-century oak frame preserved as is the
enormous stone chimney. The main block, parallel with the road,
and a small back wing are still timber-framed but the crossing at
the south end was entirely reconstructed in brick. A small room at
the north end of the building, beneath the gable on the right, has
original sixteenth century walls. The cellars were at one time
used as a lock-up for prisoners awaiting trial.
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