The Old Mint Public House

SOUTHAM COVENTRY STREET SP4161 (East side) 13/64 The old Mint Public House 07/01/52

GV II

House, now inn. Early C16. Squared coursed lias with sandstone dressings, patched in places with Roman bricks, with plinth and coped gables. Plain-tile roof with brick end stacks. L-shaped plan, with gable facing front. 2 storeys plus cellar and attics; 3-window range of 3-light mullioned windows with hood mould and labels to ground and first floors, and 2-light mullioned window to attic. C16 gabled porch in internal angle rises to attic, and has a 2-light mullioned window to first floor with worn panel above, and single light in gable. C20 one-storey addition to porch has plank door within Tudor-arched surround. Further doorway in original porch has part-renewed chamfered surround and renewed Tudor-arched head. Left side and rear have further mullioned windows and single-chamfered lights. C16 Tudor-arched doorway to rear, and to front within original porch. Interior: heavy stop-chamfered spine beans in ground floor room to rear, also said to exist in first floor rooms. C17 open-well staircase rising to attics with moulded strings, large turned balusters, moulded handrails and pendants, and a panelled newel-post with ball finials. (V.C.H.: Warwickshire, Vol.VI, pp.220-221 and Buildings of England: Warwickshire, p.403).

Listing NGR: SP4191161928