The Cricketers Public House (EHER 25047)

Late 14th century market hall, now public house.

Original HER entry merged with NRHE data import: The Cricketers Inn (NAT). <1> No 7 West Street (The Cricketeers Public House). Market hall, now public house. Late 14th century, altered in the late 18th and 19th century. RCHM 82. Grade II*. <2> Cricketeers Inn was built probably in the 18th century but has been much altered and refronted. <3> 2013. Field visit. Street frontage has been refurbished to a brick façade in the early 19th century, and was recorded after an extensive fire in 2010. Was clearly not a domestic building shown by its structure, and it most likely played an integral role in the marketplace such as a market house or court hall. Both the ground-floor and first floor was a single undivided space, large enough to hold court sessions, with the ground-floor being able to hold a large shop. In the late 18th or early 19th century the building was refurbished, with a brick front, a staircase put in and a neo-classical shop window, with three brick chimneys also built in. <4> See also: <5>