The Saracens Head Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the West Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 December 1951. Hotel, public house. 8 related planning applications.
The Saracens Head Hotel
- WRENN ID
- outer-foundation-frost
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Northamptonshire
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 December 1951
- Type
- Hotel, public house
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
TOWCESTER WATLING STREET WEST SP6948 13/200 No.219 (The Saracens Head 01/12/51 Hotel)
- II
Hotel and public house, formerly coaching inn. Early C18 with older origins. Coursed squared ironstone, plain-tile roofs, brick ridge stacks. 2 storeys and attic; 7-window range. Central carriage arch with timber lintel and double-leaf panelled doors, that to left with wicket. 15-pane sash windows to left of arch and to right, with stone lintels and keyblocks. Canted bay window between windows to ground floor left, otherwise 12-pane sash windows to ground and first floors with stone lintels and keyblocks except for round-arched window above arch flanked by niches holding fine lead statuettes of Venus (left ) and Apollo with harp (right), reputed to have come from Easton Neston. Chamfered plinth, storey band and moulded stone eaves. Hipped roof dormers with diamond leaded windows. Single-storey extension to right, probably added as an assembly room. Interior: barrel-vaulted plaster ceiling to dining room. Recommended by Sam Weller in Pickwick Papers as a place where a 'very good little dinner' could be got ready in half an hour. (Charles Dickens, 'Pickwick Papers', 1837, Chapter 50, p.544).
Listing NGR: SP6919648805
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