NHER 56272 (Building record) - Former Rosary Tavern, 95 Rosary Road

September 2011. Historic Building Recording.
Record made of The Rosary Tavern ahead of its proposed conversion.
The Rosary Tavern is first recorded as a licensed beerhouse in 1836 following the Beerhouse Act of 1830, which promoted the establishment of beerhouses that only sold beer to discourage damaging consumption of spirits. It is likely that the beerhouse was established in a private house. In 1930 a building is shown at this location on the Millard & manning map (1830) and probably forms part of a housing development for industrial workers. The building is constructed from red brick in a Flemish bond with a red pantile roof. There has been much alteration to the building in the late 19th and early 20th century. The building is now detached but was originally attached at the rear to a row of back-to back cottages that were demolished in the 20th century. The façade comprises two ground floor windows, one either side of the central door, and horizontal timber casements divided by four mullions and a transom. The lower two rows of panes in each window are glazed with circular glass to imitate historic 'bull's eye' glass. The decorative cornice consists of a band of dentils with a band of pyramidal dogtooth below.
See report (S1) for further details.
S. Howard (HES), 21 November 2011.