Listed Building

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Address/Name of Site

CROOK INN WITH RAILINGS AND ANCILLARY BUILDINGSLB49036

Status: Designated

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Summary

Category
C
Date Added
19/12/2002
Local Authority
Scottish Borders
Planning Authority
Scottish Borders
Parish
Tweedsmuir
NGR
NT 11114 26438
Coordinates
311114, 626438

Description

Early 19th century, incorporating earlier fabric; 1935 additions and interior remodelling by James Taylor. 2-storey 3-bay piend-roofed hotel, with pitched-roofed annex to rear, linked by flat-roofed single storey 1935 addition; 2-storey 5-bay piend-roofed house to rear (W); L-shaped single storey ancillary building to SW. Stonework painted white, dressings and timber black.

E ELEVATION: 3-bay; base course; cill band at 1st floor level. Boarded timber door to centre with 2-pane fanlight and cornice above; regularly fenestrated.

2 single windows of left bay of E elevation of rear annex visible, and dormer window breaking eaves of 2nd bay from left; remainder obscured by 1930's addition.

S ELEVATION: 2-bay S elevation of piend-roofed main block to right; windows with louvred shutters at 1st floor; ground floor obscured by 5-bay single storey 1930's addition: 2-leaf glazed timber door in moulded surround in penultimate bay to right, flanked by curved bays with metal-framed curved glazing; 2 further bays to left with metal-framed glazing; metal balcony (with crook) above, curved to right, with painted wrought-iron balustrade. Blind gabled bay to left (S elevation of annex). Further single storey extension to left.

W ELEVATION: mainly obscured by single storey extension.

N ELEVATION: regularly fenestrated 2-bay N elevation of piend-roofed main block to left. Gabled N elevation of annex to right, with 3-bay single storey extension at ground floor; timber-panelled door with curved projection above to right; 2 tripartite windows with metal-framed glazing to left, and 2 further narrow windows to outer left.

INTERIOR: 1930's timber panelling to reception area and sweeping stair banister with metal hand rail; glazed brick round-arched chimneypiece. 2-tone green and yellow vitreous panels to main bathroom. Art Deco basins and toilets in ladies toilets; 2-tone blue vitreous wall panels with black frame and matching mirrors; blue and black Deco weighing machine. Art Deco basins and urinal in gentleman's toilets; cream vitreous wall panels with red and black frames and matching mirrors.

RAILINGS: swagged wrought-iron railings in garden with tripartite circular finials and crook-shaped posts.

HOUSE AT REAR: 2-storey 5-bay house: rubble construction with later openings (windows, porch etc) to ground; timber-clad with modern windows at 1st floor.

L-SHAPED ANCILLARY BUILDING: single storey piend-roofed outbuilding; white-painted rubble; altered openings.

Small-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows to main block; metal-framed lying-pane glazing to 1930's additions. Dark grey slates; lead flashings. Cast-iron down pipes and rhones. Corniced chimneys (painted) with circular grey/ black cans.

Statement of Special Interest

Strang notes it as the 'oldest licensed premises in Scotland', 'in existence around 1604'. Notable now for its stylish 'roadhouse-style' Art Deco additions of 1936.

References

Bibliography

A building marked as Crook appears on Armstrong's 1775 map of Peebles and Tweeddale. Marked as Crook Inn on Ainslie's map of 1821. Architectural plans of proposed reconstruction of Crooke Inn (1935) at NAS RHP22144 (not seen). Strang BORDERS AND BERWICK p249. Cruft, Dunbar & Fawcett, Buildings of Scotland: Borders (2006), p738. www.scottisharchitects.org for information on James Taylor.

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