The Pickwick Restaurant
THE PICKWICK RESTAURANT, 197, 199 AND 201, WATLING STREET WEST
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1040839
- Date first listed:
- 01-Dec-1951
- List Entry Name:
- The Pickwick Restaurant
- Statutory Address:
- THE PICKWICK RESTAURANT, 197, 199 AND 201, WATLING STREET WEST
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1040839
- Date first listed:
- 01-Dec-1951
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 14-Dec-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Pickwick Restaurant
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE PICKWICK RESTAURANT, 197, 199 AND 201, WATLING STREET WEST
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- THE PICKWICK RESTAURANT, 197, 199 AND 201, WATLING STREET WEST
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- West Northamptonshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Towcester
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 69257 48745
Details
TOWCESTER WATLING STREET WEST SP6948 13/196 Nos. 197, 199 and 201 (The 01/12/51 Pickwick Restaurant) (Formerly listed as No. 197, No.199, No.201)
GV II
Includes No.2, Park Street. Row of shops and dwellings and restaurant. Early C18 with C20 alterations. Red brick in Flemish bond, painted to front, C20 plain-tile hipped roofs, brick ridge and end stacks. L-plan. 2 storeys and attic; 6-window range. C20 shop front to No. 197. C19 shop front to No. 199 with pair of canted bay windows either side of C20 glazed door. C18 shop front to No.201 (The Pickwick Restaurant) with part-glazed central door, flanked by bay windows, that to left with pair of 12-pane sash windows with thick glazing bars, that to right many-paned, both with dentilled wood moulded cornice carried over door as hood. C19 canted bay window to first floor left, C19 sash windows to first floor centre and 12-pane sash windows to first floor right. Storey band and moulded eaves. Hipped and gabled roof dormers. Wing to rear left faces Park Street, has flared headers to brickwork and 12-pane sashes to ground and first floors all with gauged brick lintels. Inserted C20 door with wood lintel. Lower 2-storey, one-window extension with 4-panel part-glazed door with ornamental overlight and reeded wood surround with cornice hood, C20 first floor casement window with flat-arched head and nogged brick eaves. Interior: No.201 has rebuilt staircase with re-used early C18 turned balusters.
Listing NGR: SP6926148738
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 235218
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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