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Potter Street, WORKSOP, S80 2AD

The Grade II-listed French Horn Hotel was opened in 1906, having been built for the Sheffield brewers Hooson Bros. by Frederick Hopkinson. It seems that the present building may have replaced two previous related structures, i.e. a public house of the same name that had apparently stood here for 130 years and a malthouse of even longer standing. The previous pub stood gable end to the road. The site occupied by both buildings were used for the new building, giving the 1906 resurrection of the French Horn this long frontage on Potter Street. The ground floor frontage is faced in dark and light green faience manufactured in the colloquially-known Bermantofts pottery by Messrs Wilcox and Co. of Leeds. Wilcox & Co. traded between 1879-1957, during which time they produced decorative bricks and tiles in orange or buff-coloured architectural terracotta, glazed bricks, and glazed terracotta (faience). The pub closed in 2009 although the premises are currently being upgraded or converted.

A fine terracotta pair in the spandrels of the bar room window.

Formerly, the Corn Exchange. See page 12 of http://www.worksopheritagetrail.org.uk/resources/worksop_history_4.pdf for more information on the building's history. For an alternative view, please see Image

One of four public houses in Worksop with colourful faience frontages, the French Horn also has buff terracotta detailing throughout the main façades, and is unquestionably the best of the set. Dated 1906 in the gable above the main doorway, but sadly out of use since 2008. Listed Grade II.

Detail of roof line and date panel with a profusion of terracotta detailing.

The main entrance in two-tone green faience.

The interior indicates that the pub is not currently in business. Interestingly previous photos on the site taken between 2015 and 2019 show it boarded-up. Image Image Image Image Image Presumably it was revived sometime in the last four years, only to close again. The building has a Grade II listing List Entry Number:1392412 https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1392412?section=official-list-entry.

The main door almost central in the front elevation. Grade II listed List Entry Number:1392412 https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1392412?section=official-list-entry

Built in 1851 as the Corn Exchange, it was purchased in 1882 by the Local Board of Health which became Worksop Urban District Council in 1894, whereupon it became the Town Hall. There was originally a flight of steps up to doors in the 3 central openings, but these were removed when the new council offices were built and access to the hall is now through these. The palladian style window in the side wall is a modern insertion replacing number of non-original windows. Listed Grade II. There is a flush bracket bench mark http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4690645 below the right hand window of the main façade.