Description

BILLINGBOROUGH HIGH STREET
TF 1034-1134 (east side)
4/23 The Fortescue Arms
Public House
II

2 houses with single storey range to south, now public house.
Early C18, early C19, 1855, C20. Colourwashed rubble and brick.
Pantile and slate roofs with decorative brick eaves, 2 ridge
stacks and single gable stacks. 2 storey with attics, 5 bay
front plus 2 bay single storey rubble range to south, raised in
brick in 1855. Doorway to left with pilastered doorcase, hood
supported on richly scrolled brackets and plain, double plank
doors. Doorway flanked by single mid C19 canted bay windows each
with 3 plain sashes. 2 mid C19 canted bay windows each with 3
plain sashes, beyond to right. 3 glazing bar sashes above to
left with a 3 light casement to the right with a 2 light casement
beyond,all with segmental heads. 2 glazing bar sashes in raised
mid C19 bays to right, both with wooden lintels and datestone
inscribed: "1855" below. 2 gabled dormers above to left, with
small glazing bar sashes.

Listing NGR: TF1165934097

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• The Fortescue Arms Public House official website
• Wikidata Q26642267

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Recommended Books

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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)