The College Arms Public House Including Attached Stable Block

QUINTON

SP1847 LOWER QUINTON 1912-1/14/159 The College Arms Public House 06/02/52 including attached stable block

GV II

Public house. C17 with C18 and C19 additions. Brick laid to Flemish stretcher bond; tile roof with brick cross-axial stacks. Cross wing of coursed squared ironstone with steeply pitched stone slate roof laid in diminishing courses with coped gable and stone lateral stack with offsets. PLAN: 4-unit plan with cross wing. EXTERIOR: single storey plus attic; 5-window range; 2-storey-plus-attic wing. Top modillioned cornice; addition to left has exposed wall plate and further addition with hipped outshut to return; plat band to right end. Entrance to right of centre has porch with C20 paired doors and flanking benches and canted bay windows with 1:3:1-light transomed casements, all under hipped tile canopy; square window to right has small-paned glazing; 2 windows to left end with C20 casements and one small 1st floor window. 3 gabled dormers with 2-light small-paned casements. Wing has coped end gable with damaged fleuron; window to ground floor has keyed flat arch over 4-light casement; similar 3-light casement to 1st floor and 2-light casement to attic, all with leaded glazing. Left return has entrance to right end with C20 gabled porch and plank door. Ground floor has 2-light recessed hollow-chamfered mullioned window with labelmould and similar 3-light C20 window; 1st floor has similar 2-light and 4-light windows; all with leaded glazing; blocked opening with timber lintel obscured by C18 wing. Right return has external lateral stack; 3-light window to ground floor right of stack and two 2-light windows to 1st floor, one blocked. Rear has varied alterations; 2-light window to 1st floor. Attached C19 stable block has slate roof, segmental-headed stable door flanked by similar windows to house, now shuttered; large segmental-headed window to right with small-paned glazing; gabled loading door to left, and 1991 louvred lantern to right. INTERIOR: C20 alterations; chamfered beams and fireplace with bressumer to wing; similar stone fireplace to rear room, which has some re-used C17 panelling. Named after Magdalen college, Oxford, which owns land in the parish. (Shell Guides: Hickman D: Warwickshire: London: 1979-: 141-2).

Listing NGR: SP1827547156