The Golden Ball, Newcastle-under-Lyme
to.. a Butchers shop

In 1851 Francis Fieldhouse was the proprietor of the Golden Ball, 4 Bridge Street, Newcastle-under-Lyme.

Note: sometime the building is referred to as being in Bridge Street and sometimes in the High Street - and often with different numbers, as the buildings and streets around it changed.

a view along part of the High Street / Bridge Street, Newcastle
The former Golden Ball - the only building in the area to retain its original 17th century half-timbered frontage.

In 1957 it was made a listed building - the listing reads.....

"NEWCASTLE UNDER LYME SJ8446SE HIGH STREET 644-1/8/10 (South West side) 21/11/57 Nos.14 AND 16 GV II
Formerly known as: Nos.7-9 The Golden Bell BRIDGE STREET.
Shop premises, originally dwellings and once in use as an inn. Early C17 with early C19 modifications.
Timber-framed with painted render in imitation of timbering superimposed (close studding with middle rail). Plain tiled roof with scalloped bands. 2-storeyed with attic, 2 bays.
Inserted ground floor shop front, then jettied upper storey with 2 oriel mullioned windows above, and long mullioned lights to attic dormers. Ornately carved barge boards with finials. Gable stacks. "

An 1842  pen and coloured wash drawing by John Whessell of the Golden Ball. The building of the Golden Ball still remains today and had in its life time been many things ranging from a bakers to a butchers.

© Borough Museum and Art Gallery, Newcastle under Lyme
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From:  A History of the County of Stafford: Volume 8 (1963)

'Old Houses in Newcastle under Lyme, Staffordshire.'  - 1840 by J. Buckler
Showing two half-timber houses with dormer gables, generally known as the Golden Ball public house. The building still stands on Bridge Street/High Street

© William Salt Library
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