The Duke William

The earliest known mention of the pub is in a trade directory of 1818, when it was one of five pubs in St John's Square. It became a larger building in the mid 19th century, and it is thought the pub was acquired in 1864 by Bass, Ratcliff and Gretton. The ground floor is built of brick, and the upper floors are half-timbered. The frontage on St Johns's Square has a doorway framed in stone, having an entablature on fluted brackets, and there are casement windows of three lights on each side. The floor above has casement windows on each of the three bays; the top floor has oriel windows on either side of a casement window. The gables above the oriel windows each have a bargeboard decorated…