163/5, WATLING STREET WEST
163/5, WATLING STREET WEST
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1190062
- Date first listed:
- 19-Aug-1976
- List Entry Name:
- 163/5, WATLING STREET WEST
- Statutory Address:
- 163/5, WATLING STREET WEST
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1190062
- Date first listed:
- 19-Aug-1976
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 14-Dec-1987
- List Entry Name:
- 163/5, WATLING STREET WEST
- Statutory Address 1:
- 163/5, 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:
- 163/5, 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 69351 48606
Details
TOWCESTER WATLING STREET WEST SP6949 13/185 No.163/5 19/08/76 (Formerly listed as Nos.163 and 165)
GV II
Former coaching inn, now used as offices and store. c.1770 with C19 and C20 alterations. Red brick in Flemish bond with flared headers, plain-tile roof, brick ridge and end stacks. Three-unit plan. 3-storey, 6-window range. Wide C20 double-leaf doors to left of centre in original carriage arch. 4 shallow canted C19 bay windows to ground floor; blocked door between those to right of centre. 12-pane sash windows to fist floor-with gauged brick lintels and keyblocks. 9-pane sashes to attic floor. Rendered plinth, serrated brick storey bands, and corbelled brick eaves. Interior has two open-well staircases in stair turrets to rear with turned balusters. Formerly the White Horse Inn and the town's principal coaching and posting inn. (Piggot's Directory for Northamptonshire, 1830, p.628; George James de Wilde, Ramblers Roundabout, 1872, pp.118-9).
Listing NGR: SP6935148606
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 235207
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
De Wilde, G J, Ramblers Roundabout, (1872), 118-9
Piggots Directory in Northamptonshire, (1830), 628
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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