Saracen's Head Inn is a Grade II* listed building in the West Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 December 1953. Inn. 7 related planning applications.
Saracen's Head Inn
- WRENN ID
- moated-rotunda-solstice
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- West Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- Daventry MP: Stuart Andrew (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 December 1953
- Type
- Inn
- Address
- Saracen's Head Inn, 3, Brook Street, Daventry, NN11 4GG
- OS grid reference
- SP 571 625
- Coordinates
- 52.25776, -1.16457
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Saracen's Head Inn, located on Brook Street, is a mid-18th century building with a rainwater head dated 1769. The front has been refaced in colourwashed roughcast, and it features a Welsh slated roof. The inn is two storeys high and has four sash windows with glazing bars. The red brick yard elevations include a ground floor with a pair of Venetian windows, arched panels, and a pedimented doorway. Above, three windows alternate with arched niches that contain terracotta statuettes, and there is some chequered brickwork present. The old tiled roofs are adorned with modillioned wood cornices. A second doorway is designed in a Palladian style, featuring Greek Ionic half columns, sidelights, and a central semi-circular traceried arch. Inside, the inn boasts fine panelling and a good original staircase with carved spandrels, turned balusters, a moulded handrail, and Doric newel posts.
Local climate
Saracen's Head Inn receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 7 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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