Description

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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26485110

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