Chetwode Arms Inn

SJ 67 NW WHITLEY C.P. THE VILLAGE Lower Whitley

5/121 Chetwode Arms Inn

22/12/80

• II

Public house, circa 1800 with a little C17 work. Brown brick; grey slate roof. 2 storeys; 4 windows; the left bay is of darker brickwork with unbroken vertical joint. Lower storey, from left to right, has recessed 16-pane sash; double door with 3 margined panels in each leaf, in Tuscan case with half-columns, entablature removed, under late C19 timber-framed hipped porch; casement of three 6-pane lights; late C19 framed and boarded door in simple timber case; casement of three 6-pane lights; boarded door; casement of three 6-pane lights. Upper storey has 4 similar casements. The sash has wedge lintel, the casements cambered arches; all have projecting stone cills. Kneelers and wedge-shaped stone copings to gables; 2 diminishing brick chimneys on ridge; corbelled diminishing gable chimneys. Left gable-end has door and recessed 16-pane sash in lower storey; two 12-pane recessed sashes, with horizontal 6-pane fixed light between, to upper storey. recessed wing right has boarded door and 3 small windows to lower storey; casement of three 4-pane lights to upper storey; graded grey slate roof. Small mid C20 projection in corner between wings. Interior: Chamfered beam in right room; late Georgian doors including one of 2 unequal leaves in bar; late Georgian doorcase with gadrooned architraves and rose at corners in left room; probably reused ovolo oak beam in back room. The inn retains the character of a true "public house" with small licensed rooms, some altered in detail.

Listing NGR: SJ6145178930