163/5, Watling Street West is a Grade II listed building in the West Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 August 1976. Coaching inn. 2 related planning applications.
163/5, Watling Street West
- WRENN ID
- brooding-passage-kestrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Northamptonshire
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 August 1976
- Type
- Coaching inn
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
TOWCESTER WATLING STREET WEST SP6949 13/185 No.163/5 19/08/76 (Formerly listed as Nos.163 and 165)
GV II
Former coaching inn, now used as offices and store. c.1770 with C19 and C20 alterations. Red brick in Flemish bond with flared headers, plain-tile roof, brick ridge and end stacks. Three-unit plan. 3-storey, 6-window range. Wide C20 double-leaf doors to left of centre in original carriage arch. 4 shallow canted C19 bay windows to ground floor; blocked door between those to right of centre. 12-pane sash windows to fist floor-with gauged brick lintels and keyblocks. 9-pane sashes to attic floor. Rendered plinth, serrated brick storey bands, and corbelled brick eaves. Interior has two open-well staircases in stair turrets to rear with turned balusters. Formerly the White Horse Inn and the town's principal coaching and posting inn. (Piggot's Directory for Northamptonshire, 1830, p.628; George James de Wilde, Ramblers Roundabout, 1872, pp.118-9).
Listing NGR: SP6935148606
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