Description

BOSTON

TF3244NW WITHAM BANK
716-1/4/249 (East side)
14/02/75 Witham Tavern Public House

GV II

Public house. Early C19, altered later C19. Red brick in
Flemish bond, hipped slate roof, rear wall stack.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, 3-bay front, with plinth and overhanging
eaves on paired brackets, arranged with shallow brick
pilasters at ends and between bays. To ground floor a pair of
double panelled doors with blocked overlight are set in a
pilastered timber surround with cornice, flat hood and
panelled ingoes?. Flanked by single tripartite sashes, that on
the left with glazing bars. Above are 3 glazing bars sashes.
To the left a slightly set back later C19 single bay, with
tripartite sash and glazing bar sash above. To the right-hand
end a broad shallow recess contains a tripartite sash to
ground floor, and double sash to 1st floor. Window openings
have rusticated stucco flat arches with keystones, and
roundels to fluted mullions on the tripartite windows.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
HISTORY: the inn was recorded as first licensed in 1765,
presumably an earlier building on this site, and would date
from the construction of the nearby Grand Sluice.

Listing NGR: TF3230644643

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26668518

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Recommended Books

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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period property manual, victorian house manual 2 books collection set by ian rock