NHER 32730 (Building record) - The former Ship Inn, 4 Greyfriars Way

August 1974. Listed, Grade II.
Formerly in Middlegate Street.
Listed in (S1) as being probably the house built by John Ireland, Mayor in 1716.
South-east flint and brick gable wall is 20th century rebuild. Three storeys and attics. Three window range of sashes under arches with keystones. Public house front 19th/20th century; door in 18th-century style to southeast. Slate roof; modillion eaves cornice continued on gable as open pediment. 17th-century attic mullioned window in gable.
Presumably (S1) must believe the attic window is reset as it dates the building to 18th century. However in the bar are two ovolo moulded and stopped beams that could easily be 17th century. Perhaps built around 1716?
Bar interior alone seen by E. Rose (NLA) 1997.
E. Rose (NLA) 18 April 1997.

Revised 1998 listing, (S1), dated to late 17th century; notes 17th-century pediments, turret at rear, 17th-century brick in cellar, and 17th-century beams in bar as noted above. Main roof 20th century reusing some 18th-century timbers, on a concrete wallplate!
E. Rose (NLA) 28 April 1999.

Rear (east) gable wall seen by E. Rose (NLA) 16 December 1999.
This was originally a much smaller wall of flint; it has been extended outwards and upwards in flint and brick.
A central external stack is built of red brick in header bond. None of this work is however dateable from the exterior.
E. Rose (NLA) 17 December 1999.

(S2) in file.
E. Rose (NLA), 27 July 2007.

(S3) is third draft report containing detailed documentary history of this site.
A. Yardy (HES), 06 December 2011.

Excerpt of current Listing Description:
"House. Late 17th century, remodelled late 19th century as public house, altered mid 20th century. Brick and flint, entirely brick to south façade. Slate roof to front, pantiled to remainder.
EXTERIOR: Three storeys and attic plus a basement. Three-window range. Late 19th-century plate-glass public house facade with a canted doorway at the left (north) corner: timber pilasters support block entablatures and a dentil cornice. First floor lit through three paired 6/6 horned sashes within rebuilt surrounds and gauged skewback arches. Remains of three 17th-century pediments visible above. Three similar second-floor sashes. Gabled roof with internal gable-end stack to north and ridge stack right of centre. South-east return rebuilt in brick and flint 1948 following bomb damage: timber doorway under a pediment...Prominent modillion bargeboards...Rear elevation has a two-storeyed pantiled cross-wing extending to rear to the right of a square stair turret under a hipped slate roof. Left of the turret, and partly obscured by it, is remains of a 17th-century window pediment. The cross-wing has a partly external east stack.
INTERIOR: cellars have some 17th-century brick. Main bar opened out into one room. South end with a chamfered 17th-century bridging beam. North end with two sunk-quadrant late 17th-century bridging beams with barred tongue stops. Late 19th-century staircase with bulbous turned balusters and barleysugar balusters. Inserted corridor to front range. Several sunk-quadrant moulded bridging beams. Main roof with mid-20th-century concrete wall-plate, principals, collars and butt purlins, all rebuilt mid 20th century re-using some 18th-century timbers."
Information from (S1).
Please consult the National Heritage List for England (S1) for the current listing details.
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 12 March 2022.