The Wheatsheaf Inn

SU 54 NE NORTH WALTHAM 14/24 26.4.57 The Wheatsheaf Inn

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C18, and later. The main facade faces west and comprises a blind arcade of 5 units, each bay containing a window on the first and ground-floor. Red tile roofing, rounded at the south-west corner, moulded brick dentil eaves. Red brick walling in Flemish bond; the pilasters have flint impost bands and keystones, the openings have rubbed flat arches. Above the ground floor arch and entirely within the arcade there are blue headers and a blue band above each extrados; stone cills, cement plinth. Sashes in reveals. To the north side there is a further bay and then a long lower 2-storeyed wing to the south side. The corner is rounded, with a ground-floor window. The east facade is symmetrical (2 storeys and attic and 3 upper windows) with 2 flat-roofed dormers; between the windows blue headers make diamond patterns. The ground-floor has a projecting C20 block, with a 3-light window on each side of a recesed entrance, and a parapet rising in the centre as a semi-circle to enclose a sculptured sheaf. Several rear extensions of the mid-C19.

Listing NGR: SU5636446529