Ye Olde Watling Well Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the West Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 August 1976. Inn. 3 related planning applications.
Ye Olde Watling Well Hotel
- WRENN ID
- eastward-lancet-laurel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- South Northamptonshire MP: Sarah Bool (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 August 1976
- Type
- Inn
- Address
- Ye Olde Watling Well Hotel, 36, Watling Street East, Towcester, NN12 6AF
- OS grid reference
- SP 695 484
- Coordinates
- 52.12988, -0.98555
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is an inn, now operating as a hotel and restaurant, dating from 1650, with alterations made in the 20th century. It’s constructed of coursed squared limestone and ironstone, with a plain-tile roof and a brick end stack to the left. The building has a 2-unit plan and is two storeys high, with an attic. It features a 3-window front. A central 4-panel door is set within a pilastered wooden surround, flanked by 20th-century bay windows with a continuous moulded wooden cornice. The first floor has 2-light windows in the centre, with wooden lintels, and a small, blocked window to the left with a stone surround. A 2-light casement window is on the right, with a chamfered stone surround. A central turret has a hipped roof and a 2-light casement window to the front, incorporating a wood lintel and a datestone inscribed L/WS/M/1650. Quoins are present, and a gabled roof dormer is on the right. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Ye Olde Watling Well Hotel sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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