The Ten Bells

[m_w_r]

Do seem to recall an old thread about the ground floor being re-built.....

But if you look at the windows on the southern aspect, there are three "columns" of windows in the drawing:



and two by c.1905, the third "column" from the right (taking the photo as a 2-D object) being on the new south-western aspect of the diagonal corner:



Plus, the roof is very different - that depicted in the sketch looks more like that of the building to the immediate east of the Ten Bells in the photograph, although the chimney stack is pretty recognisable. It does seem as if a lot of work (at least externally) had taken place in the years between.

I'm off to have a closer look...

Mark

[John Bennett]

Thanks Steve,

Don't recall that one, but it certainly looks the case. And the upper floors refronted, perhaps?

[Steve S]

Do seem to recall an old thread about the ground floor being re-built.....
Steve

[John Bennett]

Here's why...

Contemporary sketch (not sure what publication)


Goad Insurance map, May 1890.


OS map 1894, showing the diagonal corner we know today.


It appears that the Ten Bells was a square-cornered building and seems to have changed between 1890 and 1894. The sketch shows an altogether different style of pub.

I don't know if it was just refronted or entirely rebuilt. 'Entirely rebuilt' looks very possible here.

[John Bennett]

This could be the shortest thread of all time, but...

How many of us here assume that the 'Ten Bells' is the same building that stood in 1888? I always have.

I've got a feeling it isn't. Has anybody else clocked this before?