The Windsor Castle Public House

LITTLE BOOKHAM LITTLE BOOKHAM STREET TQ/15/SW (west side) 5/185

7.9.51 The Windsor Castle PH

II

Farmhouse, now public house. Probably later C16, altered in C17, with large modern additions at left end and rear (which are not of special interest). Scored render painted white, probably on brick cladding of timber frame, red tile roof, brick chimney (painted white). Three-unit plan, formerly single-depth (and probably formerly of smoke-bay type). Two low storeys and 3 bays; doorway at right-hand end with simple wooden canopy; casement windows of 2, 3, and 2 lights at ground floor and similar windows at 1st floor except the first which now has 4-pane sashed glazing; wallplate and ends of rafters visible; roof half- hipped at left end, with large clustered chimney stack on ridge between 2nd and 3rd bays. Doorway in left return wall, and modern single-storey additions continued. Rear covered by additions. Interior: 1st and 2nd bays at ground floor now all one room (partition probably removed); 2nd bay has chamfered spine beam with cyma stops and joists with similar decoration, very large inglenook with chamfered bressummer and built-in side bench; at 1st floor wall-posts, wallplate, large cambered tie-beams, and windbraces of a 4-bay timber frame are visible; the bays are of unequal width, the 3rd (containing the chimney stack) being approx. 2 metres wide and the others approx. 3 metres.

Listing NGR: TQ1254854532