Number 104 and Number 106 (The Brave Old Oak Hotel) is a Grade II listed building in the West Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 August 1976. A C17, early C19 Public house. 3 related planning applications.

Number 104 and Number 106 (The Brave Old Oak Hotel)

WRENN ID
vacant-hammer-bone
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Northamptonshire
Constituency
South Northamptonshire MP: Sarah Bool (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
19 August 1976
Type
Public house
Address
Number 104 and Number 106 (The Brave Old Oak Hotel), Watling Street East, Towcester, NN12 6BT
OS grid reference
SP 692 487
Coordinates
52.13268, -0.98902
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Numbers 104 and 106, known as The Brave Old Oak Hotel, is a hotel and public house located on Watling Street in Towcester. Number 104 dates from the 17th century and features a timber-framed structure with applied timber on the front and a stuccoed ground floor. Number 106 is from the early 19th century and is also stuccoed. The roof of Number 106 is covered with old plain tiles, while Number 104 has a roof covered with 20th-century plain tiles.

The building has two storeys and an attic, with an eight-window range. Number 104 includes three canted bay windows on the ground floor, a 20th-century door to the left, and another door between two bays to the right of the center. A moulded wood cornice and fascia board runs above the doors and bays. The first floor features three-light leaded casement windows and two gabled roof dormers. Number 106 has 12-pane sash windows on the ground floor and to the first floor, with narrow 8-pane sashes flanking the windows on either side of the center. The facade includes a plinth, a moulded string course at the first floor, pilastered strips at the center and ends of the first floor, an attic floor storey band, blank attic panels, a moulded cornice, and a plain stone-coped parapet. Inside, the building has chamfered spine beams.

Local climate

Number 104 and Number 106 (The Brave Old Oak 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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  • Sale history — 3 transactions since 2004
  • 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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