Description

BOWES THE STREET
NY 9913
(North side)
33/16 The Ancient Unicorn
Hotel and attached
rear wing (shown on
OS map as Unicorn
House)
II
Hotel. Mid C18 front block with altered and refronted C17 rear wing of 2 builds.
Front block: dressed sandstone with squared rubble returns; graduated green
slate roof; stone chimney stacks. Rear wing: squared rubble; left section has
stone-flagged roof, right section has green slate roof; stone chimney stacks.

Front block: 3 storeys plus basement; 3 bays. Raised-and-chamfered quoins.
Basement has central boarded door flanked by blocked windows. Replaced casements
in moulded surrounds above basement string course. Stone eaves cornice. Roof
with coped gables and shaped kneelers. Corniced end stacks.

Rear wing: set-back 2-storey, 2-bay left section facing courtyard has a Tuscan
screen, now glazed, and 3 segmental relieving arches above. 2 replaced casements
in moulded surrounds on first floor. Passage behind screen has two 16-pane
sashes in moulded surrounds. Refronted 2-storey, irregular 3-bay right section
has raised-and-chamfered quoins to left; 2 late C19 stone canted bay windows and
3 horizontal sliding sashes above. Mounting block to left. Left end and ridge
stacks. Short 2-storey, gabled stair wing to rear, flanked by one-storey
outshuts. 2-light chamfered-mullioned, first-floor window concealed by left
outshut.

Interior: front block has cut-string, dogleg staircase of 3 flights plus landing
rail, with 2 turned balusters per tread and a ramped moulded handrail.

C20 additions to left return of front block and at right end of rear wing,and
attached farmbuildings to rear, are not of special interest.

Listing NGR: NY9949513540

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26608785

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Recommended Books

• 
  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)