Marquess Of Exeter

LYDDINGTON MAIN STREET SP 8697-8797 (east side) 8/116 10.11.55 Marquess of Exeter (formerly listed as Exeter Arms Public House and barn to S). GV II

Public house. Early-mid C17, with altered fenestration and C20 rear extensions. Coursed ironstone rubble, thatched roof, coped gables. Flanking brick chimneys, chimney of pale limestone ashlar to right of centre. Cross-passage plan. 2 storeys, 3 bays with passage between right bays. Ground floor has barred wooden casements, 3-light in outer bays, 4-light to centre. First floor has 4 sash windows in architrave frames, 5-pane to outer bays, 4-pane to centre. All windows have small panes and wooden lintels. Top-lit flush-panelled door to passage in 4-centred chamfered arch.. Stone wall masks C20 rendered extension to right. Rear wall has blocked 3-light window with chamfered wooden mullions to first floor right, and C20 single storey extensions. Interior: heavy stop-chamfered spine beams; stop-chamfered wooden lintel to large fireplace backing onto passage; 2-light stone mullion window in rear wall of left bay.

Listing NGR: SP8739897381