Listed Building record MDO11893 - 124 East Street, Bridport

No 124 No 126 (Masonic Hall) No 128 (Granby House) SY 4792 1/58 28.11.50. II* GV 2. Rear circa 1500, front 1769 when it was opened as the Marquis of Granby Inn. Front in stucco. Hipped stone slate roof. 3 storeys. Modillion eaves cornice. Rusticated ground floor. Others have 6-panelled doors with semi-circular fanlights. Sashes with glazing bars and keystones. Nos 124 has eared surrounds to 1st and 2nd floor windows, and semi-circular blind panels to blocked windows on 2nd floor. Rear part is remnant of the mediaeval Priory of St John. Rubble. Pitched slate roof with coped gables on kneelers East wall has a canted oriel window supported on coved and moulded corbel, 4 lights, each with 3 centred heads. The lower part looks circa 1500, the upper part possibly mid C16. Remains of 2 other windows with moulded frames, probably early C16, one with a relieving arch. Voussoirs of a pointed lancet incorporated into south wall. Interior of rear part. Ground floor room at north end has ceiling with all beams moulded, door with chamfered arch, and blocked door on west side (now a cupboard) with chamfered relieving arch and behind this an ogee-shaped moulding presumably once framing a door. Room on 1st floor above this has the oriel window In the east side: opposite this it has a blocked window with 3 arched lights and hollow chamfer: fireplace with chamfered 4-centred arch. Room at south end of 1st floor was evidently re-conditioned in mid C18: it has a moulded cornice and fielded panelling throughout, including reveals of 2 blocked windows to west. Further 1 storey red brick extension to south. Pitched pantile roof, 1 planked door. Planked double doors. 1 casement with glazing bars. 1 boarded window. 1 loft door.

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Feb 16 2011 8:46AM