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A look at the historic buildings on Greengate Street in Stafford. It's now part of the main high street in the town centre full of shops, pubs, restaurants and cafes.


The Bear Grill and Greengate News


Grade II listed building.

The Bear Public House, Stafford

   STAFFORD
   SJ9223SW GREENGATE STREET
   590-1/10/37 (East side)
   No.7
   The Bear Public House
   GV II
   Public house. C17 with c1870 facade and rear wing.
   Timber-frame with brick to rear; steep tile roof. 2 storeys
   with attic; symmetrical 2-window range. C20 ground floor with
   deep fascia; attic has 2 jettied gables. Ground floor has
   entrance to left of centre and to right end; 2 canted oriels;
   1st floor has 2 rectangular oriels of 4 round-headed lights
   with leaded glazing; attic has projecting windows of 2
   round-headed lights with wide bracketed sills and cornices and
   leaded glazing. Decorative timber-framing. C19 moulded timber
   sign bracket with scrolled wrought-iron braces, with C20 sign,
   originally with carved bear to top. Rear has 2-storey gabled
   wing with single-storey wing to end; some revealed
   timber-framing, close studded with brace, over entrance to
   left. INTERIOR altered; roof reported as having double
   trenched purlins, double collars with plain chamfers and queen
   struts.
   (County Sites and Monuments Record).


   Listing NGR: SJ9223523221


This text is a legacy record and has not been updated since the building was originally listed. Details of the building may have changed in the intervening time. You should not rely on this listing as an accurate description of the building.

Source: English Heritage

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Pub sign with Bear sculpture above it. A replica of the original bear from 1972 (the original was from before 1793). It was carved by Kenneth Thompson. The original bear being over 200 years old, rotted away and smashed to pieces in 1970.
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Source The Bear Grill - Greengate Street, Stafford - pub sign - Bear sculpture
Author Elliott Brown from Birmingham, United Kingdom
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