Description

1.
944 WATLING STREET
(South West Side)

No 26
(Latchmere House)
TR 1457 NE 4/222A 3.5.67.

II GV

2.
Built in 1620 but refronted in early C19. 3 storeys stuccoed with a rusticated
base. Parapet. 5 sashes set in moulded architraved with stone cills and
glazing bars intact. 2 stringcourses, 1st floor has later balconettes.
Round-headed doorcases with 6 fielded panelled doors. 2 footscrapers. Plinth.
Right side doorcase has glazing bars intact. The interior is timber-framed
and has traces of C17 painted floral and scroll decorations with the initials
Q M W and M W in a cupboard on the 1st floor. This floor has a room having
an early C19 bow and a moulded cornice with floral decoration. There is an
early Cl9 nantelpieae with dentils, fluted pilasters and heads of Alexander
the Great set in a marble surround and a fine early C19 cast iron firegrate.
Panelled doors. The cellar has some reused Roman bricks and Mediaeval masonry.

Nos 24 to 27 (consec) form a group.

Listing NGR: TR1481157612

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26550946

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