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John Anderson — Drum

coaching inn
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John Anderson — Drum
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Detached eight-bay former coaching inn, single-storey-with-attic to front and two-storey to rear, built c.1860. Shopfront inserted to front (north) elevation. Formerly also in use as shop and public house. Now disused. Pitched slate roof, with rendered chimneystacks and square-plan vent stack, and rendered barges with render roll crest to apex. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls to front, rear and west elevations, lined-and-ruled rendered walls east gable. Some coursed limestone and sandstone rubble visible, visible rubble quoins to west end rear elevation. Smooth rendered plinth, and smooth rendered rectangular panel to west corner. Square-headed window openings with cut limestone sills, having mixed timber sliding sash windows with one-over-two panes, one-over-one panes, and six-over-six panes. Timber battened fittings to window openings to west end of front elevation. Bull's eye windows to west end of front elevation and to attic level of west gable, that to gable with red brick surround, that to front elevation having moulded render surround and remains of spoked timber window. Shopfront consisting of hand-painted nameplate with moulded cornice over recessed square-headed door opening, having half-glazed timber panelled double-leaf door, approached by flight of rendered steps with recent metal railing. Door flanked by timber display windows with painted sills. Square-headed door opening to house having timber battened door, paned over-light, and concrete steps. Multiple-bay single-storey outbuilding attached to west end of rear elevation, having pitched corrugated-iron roof and rubble stone walls, red brick and slate to eaves level, with some roughcast render. Street fronted, with yard to the rear.

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