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Picture source: Hania Franek
The Three Tuns Hotel was situated at 14 New Elvet. This grade-II listed pub was originally three houses and has now been converted to student accommodation.
Source: Roy Lambeth
Listed building details:
3 houses, now hotel. Late C18 incorporating earlier building. Painted incised stucco with painted ashlar plinth and dressings; Welsh slate roof with brick chimneys. 3 storeys, 5 bays. Half-glazed double door at left with side and overlights in doorcase of narrow fluted pilasters and entablature. Blocked door in Tuscan doorcase in third bay. Oriels above doors have cornices and low-pitched hipped roofs; similar treatment to 2-storey canted bay window in fifth bay. Other windows late C19 sashes with projecting stone sills. Transverse ridge chimneys in second bay and at left of fifth bay; chimney in front of ridge in centre and on rear slopein third bay. Interior: principal stair is open-string, with delicately-carved tread-ends; slender turned balusters support ramped handrail; wide wreath and curtail; ramped panelled dado. Second stair on upper floors at right: closed string, boarded-over balustrade. Central early C19 stair on upper floors. Vertical studded timber frame in wall between fourth and fifth bays. Entrance hall has C18 chimney piece with cornice.
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Name Dates Comments Maggie Marlborough 1950s My parents ran the pub in the late 50's Robert and Beatrice Thompson. Sadly dad has passed my mam is 93 but with dementia. I remember very little as would have been 4 or 5.
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Date of photo: 2023	Picture source: Simon A