Description

HILMARTON SWINDON ROAD
SU 07 NW
(west side)
6/262 The Duke Inn
GV II
Inn, c1850-60, squared rubble stone with slate eaves roof and
decorative barge boards. Two storeys with cross wing to south,
gabled to east front and twin-roofed main range with paired north
gables. Stone mullion windows with hoodmoulds and C20 leaded
lights. Cross wing has ridge stack and east front 3-light each
floor. Main range has east front set back with ashlar projecting
porch in angle, small 2-light under eaves above, 3-light to ground
floor right and 2-light above, breaking eaves under barge boarded
gable. Porch is ashlar with diagonal buttresses, Tudor-arched door
with hoodmould and Jacobean-style shaped gable with portrait relief
profile of Duke of Wellington. Hoodmould is carried around north
side under parapet. Two north lancets and buttress between. North
gables each have 2-light first floor window, ground floor has 2-
light to left, 3-light off-centre and slate roofed porch to right
with ashlar Tudor-arched east side entry. Large stack in roof
valley. South side of cross wing has gable to left, small dormer
gable to centre and side-wall stack to right. Slightly lower one-
window west end section with west stack and south dormer gable.

Listing NGR: SU0190575328

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26273453

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