Description

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 19/03/2013

SO 4051 - 4151
14/143

WEOBLEY CP,
HIGH STREET (north side),
Unicorn House

(Formerly listed as Unicorn Guest House and Unicorn Hotel)

20.02.53

GV

II*

House, hotel at time of listing. C14, with some mid-C19 and mid-C20 alterations. Timber-frame with rendered infill on a rendered plinth under a tile roof. Four bays aligned east/west, the western bay jettied to the front and side (south and west), the bay to the east of the centre also jettied. South front of two storeys, the two un-jettied bays with coving to the eaves, only half of which survives in left-hand bay. Two fixed casements to left, and two 3-light case in the right-hand jettied bay. Ground floor has four 3-light casements. Entrance to right of centre has four-centred head and a C20 two-leaf door. Framing: ground floor has a moulded plate. The left-hand corner has a dragon beam with a diagonally set curved bracket rising from a moulded capital. Wall-frames are two square panels high to each floor. The left-hand end has cusped angle braces. The west gable-end truss is C19, but the eastern end retains a cusped roof. The building probably extended further to the east. (RCHM, 3, p 201, no 38).

Listing NGR: SO4031851572

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17540131

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Recommended Books

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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)