The Fleece Inn, Northallerton

The Fleece Inn is a historic pub in Northallerton, a town in North Yorkshire, in England.

An Augustinian friary was constructed in Northallerton in about 1340 and was dissolved around 1530.^[1] The Fleece Inn occupies part of its site, and was probably built as a house the 15th century. It has been altered over the centuries, eventually becoming a pub. Nikolaus Pevsner described it as "over-restored". The building was grade II listed in 1969.^[2] In the early 2020s it was converted into an Italian restaurant, but soon became a pub again. A plaque on the front of the building claims that it may have been where Charles Dickens wrote Nicholas Nickleby.^[3]

The pub is built of sandstone, with timber framing on the gables, and a pantile roof. There are two storeys and attics, a gabled wing on the left, a projecting gabled cross-wing to the right, and a left rear wing. On the left is a two-storey square bay window with casement windows and a tile roof. In the centre is a porch, and to the right is a two-storey square bay window containing mullioned windows, and with a tiled hipped roof. The gables also contain mullioned windows. Inside, there are stone floors with massive slabs, low oak-beamed ceilings, and a built-in salt box in the right-hand ground floor room.^[2][3][4]