22, Couching Street

No. 22 Couching Street is a terraced house dating from the late 16th century to early 17th century, likely originally an inn, with a vehicle entrance on the left side. It was remodeled and refronted in the late 18th to early 19th century. The building features grey vitrified bricks arranged in header bond, accented with red brick dressings that form panels. It has a slated king-post roof with brick stacks and a single depth plan that includes a stair in a former outshot. There is a short cross-wing made of purple brick with a tiled roof and a full-height chimney stack at the rear. The house is two storeys tall and has a cellar, with four windows in total.

The entrances have gauged red brick segmental heads and part-glazed panelled doors, flanked by gauged red brick segmental arched sashes, with the two on the right being hornless. The first floor features similar arched windows, including one 4-pane sash and three metal-framed casements with glazing bars. Inside, there are chamfered spine beams with scroll stops. The front southern room has built-in fielded panel cupboards to the left of the fireplace, a notable late 19th-century panelled door with geometrical patterned coloured glass, and a sliding sash leading into the cross-wing room, which contains a fielded panel corner cupboard. The upstairs front room is divided by a folding timber partition.

Historically, this building was known as the Red Lion Public House at the end of the 18th century and was one of six inns in Watlington that came under the ownership of local brewers, the Haywards, by the early 19th century. The front room, which is divided by a screen, was reputedly used for tea dances later on. The former vehicle entrance provided access to stabling and a barn at the rear.