Nos 4 & 6 ACREFIELD ROAD (continued):

Owners of No.4 & No.6:
1833-1838 Miss Alice King
1838-1867 Henry Averill, schoolmaster
1867-1871 Exors. of Henry Averill
1871-1872 William Henry Averill, watchmaker
1872-1876 Exors. of Wm. H. Averill
1876-1900 William Ashe (Mrs Ashe was the daughter of Henry Averill)
1901-1911 Exors. of William Ashe.

No.2 ACREFIELD ROAD, The White Horse, built c.1833

The building has been very much altered, but it is possible that it was built as a 3½-storey 3-bay vernacular house, though whether all brick or stone we cannot now determine.

Now we see it as it was refurbished as a beerhouse, probably about 1897-8 as the Rates went up from £25.10.0d. to £30 in that year. The front, with a stone dado was roughcast below and given a black and white timber treatment above the first floor window heads. A gable was formed on the right (a bigger window for the licensee's sitting room ?) and the front half of the roof was covered with red tiles.

The 2-storey bow window on the left is topped with a cove in the South Lancashire & Cheshire tradition, and the lower lights are glazed with etched glass. There is stained glass in many upper lights. In the centre the front doorway and window above, in yellow stone, are Baroque -especially the blocks of the window jambs - as was fashionable in 1895-1905.

Internally the bar was extended back in the 1920s or 1930s to incorporate most of the ground floor. The work, in good solid oak with panelling and a Tudor-style door, is high class work, and the ceiling patterning in anaglypta is very effective.

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