THE SARACENS HEAD HOTEL

THE SARACENS HEAD HOTEL, 219, WATLING STREET WEST

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1040840
Date first listed:: 01-Dec-1951
List Entry Name:: THE SARACENS HEAD HOTEL
Statutory Address:: THE SARACENS HEAD HOTEL, 219, WATLING STREET WEST

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1040840
Date first listed:: 01-Dec-1951
List Entry Name:: THE SARACENS HEAD HOTEL
Statutory Address 1:: THE SARACENS HEAD HOTEL, 219, WATLING STREET WEST

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: THE SARACENS HEAD HOTEL, 219, 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 69196 48805

Details

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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Legacy System number:: 235222
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Dickens, C, Pickwick Papers, (1837), 544

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.