THE LAMB ARCADE

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
List Entry Name:: THE LAMB ARCADE
Statutory Address:: THE LAMB ARCADE, CASTLE STREET

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Official list entry

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

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.

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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

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Legacy System number:: 249227
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
'Berkshire Archaeological Journal' in Berkshire Archaeological Journal, , Vol. 50, (1947)

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