The Lamb Arcade
THE LAMB ARCADE, CASTLE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1284755
- Date first listed:
- 09-Dec-1949
- List Entry Name:
- The Lamb Arcade
- Statutory Address:
- THE LAMB ARCADE, CASTLE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1284755
- Date first listed:
- 09-Dec-1949
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 09-Feb-1988
- List Entry Name:
- The Lamb Arcade
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE LAMB ARCADE, CASTLE STREET
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 LAMB ARCADE, CASTLE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- South Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Wallingford
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 60743 89502
Details
WALLINGFORD CASTLE STREET SU6089NE, SU6089SE (East side) Wallingford 10/63, 11/63 The Lamb Arcade 09/12/49 (Formerly listed as Lamb Inn, High Street)
GV II
Coaching inn, now arcade of shops. Mid C17 to rear. Early C18 front range, late C19 additions to rear, C20 alterations. Rendered brick plinth; grey brick with red brick dressings; old plain-tile roof; brick end stacks. Courtyard plan. 3-storey, 5-window range to High Street. Central basket-arched carriage opening having stone dropped keystone, with C20 glazed doors forming recessed porch. 12-pane unhorned sashes with segmental brick heads with keystones to ground and first floors. Painted flat band between ground and first floors. 9-pane unhorned sashes with segmental brick heads with keystones to second floor. Dentil course to eaves. Left return: mid C17 to centre, end of early C18 range to right, late C19 range to left. Rendered plinth; red brick to right; render, on timber framing to centre; C19 red brick to left; render, probably on brick, to first floor left. 3-storey end of range to right. 2 storeys and attic; 8-window range to centre. 2 angled bays with horizontal sashes to right. 5-light wood ovolo mullioned window to left of centre. 3-light window to left. Jettied first floor. 12-pane unhorned sash to left. 4-light wood ovolo moulded window to left. Pair of 16-pane unhorned sashes to left of centre. Two 4-light wood ovolo mullioned windows to centre. Pair of 16-pane unhorned sashes to right of centre. 2 jettied cross-gables to left and right of centre with 4-light casements. C19 extension to left: 2-storey, 2-window range of irregular fenestration. Interior: C20 dog-leg staircase with landings. Areas of timber-framing visible to interior. Some blocked fireplaces. Early C18 addition to right of High Street front, which has probably formerly part of adjoining property, National Westminster Bank (q.v.). 3-storey, single-window range. Tripartite sashes to each floor. Flat brick between ground and first floors and between first and second floors. Cornice and parapet to eaves. History: Silvanus Wiggins, landlord, entertained William of Orange, en route to London to take the crown, in 1688. ('Some Notes on the Domestic Architecture of Wallingford, Berkshire" by P.S. Stokes in "Berkshire Archaeological Journal", Vol.50, 1947).
Listing NGR: SU6074389502
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 249227
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Berkshire Archaeological Journal in Berkshire Archaeological Journal, Vol. 50, (1947)
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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