York Historic Environment Record

Public house. 1930 incorporating early C17 and early C19 structures; some later alteration. By Biscomb & Ferry for the Tadcaster Tower Brewery.

MATERIALS: timber-framed front on limestone ashlar footings with red herring-bone brick infill on ground floor, upper floors plastered: rear of orange-beige brick in English garden-wall bond or rendered. Front gabled roof of plain tile; rear roofs hipped, of slate and plain tile: brick stacks.

EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attics; 2 gabled bays with jettied upper floors. Glazed and boarded door recessed to right beneath ogee-arched overdoor panel carved with a vine-draped punch bowl. Inn front to left has 5-light mullion and transom window to street; two similar windows flank bar door with carved panel above, in canted right return. First floor has two 3-light oriel windows, attic 3-light mullion window in right bay only. Windows are all casements, with square lattice lights on ground floor, diamond lattice on upper floors. Gables finished with bargeboards carved with vine trails and finials; left gable flanked by panels carved with lions bearing punch bowls and dated 1675 and 1930. Rear: C17 wing retains 3-course brick band and truncated principal rafter beneath altered roof.

INTERIOR: ground floor fitted throughout with tongue and groove panelling and wooden settles. Front bar has round-arched brick fireplace, middle bar Tudor arched fireplace. Back bar incorporates beam and joists from earlier building; stone flagged floor and segment-arched C17 brick fireplace survive. Ceiling beam is supported on the clapper of a tenor bell which was replaced in York Minster in 1765.

Listing NGR: SE6021751997

Derived from English Heritage LB download dated: 22/08/2005. The Punch Bowl, elaborate neo-Tudor timber framing of 1930.

Pevsner N and Neave D 1972. The Buildings of England:Yorkshire: York and the East Riding, p234. London: Penguin