The Lamb Inn

HINDON HIGH STREET ST 9132 (east side)

9/134 The Lamb Inn 6.1.66 GV II

Coaching inn. Mid C18 rebuild of earlier inn. Limestone ashlar with some limestone and flint chequers, tiled roof, brick stacks. L-plan, entrances on left return. Two storey, 6-window. To right is fine pedimented door case with anthemion frieze and half-glazed double doors, to left is bow window with 3 sashes, glazed door in stone Tudor-arched surround, 12-pane sash, 9-pane sash with thick glazing bars and 4-panelled door in porch. First floor has two 16- pane sashes and pair of 16-pane sashes, one 12-pane and pair of 12- pane sashes and 9-pane fixed window. Right return facing High Street has two 16-pane tripartite sashes to ground floor and two pairs of 12-pane sashes to first floor, stone modillioned eaves cornice, hipped attic dormer with two 6-pane top-hung casements. Rear has casements, planked doors and C20 extension in courtyard, 2-storey C18 wing in English bond brick has 12-pane sashes with thick glazing bars. Interior has open fireplace with timber lintel on stone jambs, plaster beams, some C18 fitted cupboards; those in dining room with raised and fielded panelling. Dog leg stairs have two turned balusters to each tread, wide moulded handrail. An important coaching inn on the London to Exeter road, this section turnpiked 1760-62. (N. Sheard, The History of Hindon, 1979; VCH, Wiltshire, Vol 4, 1959)

Listing NGR: ST9104132834