Description

WATLINGTON HIGH STREET
SU6894 (North side)
6/183 Nos.34 and 36 (The Well House
Hotel and Restaurant)

GV II

House, now flat, hotel and restaurant. C16, remodelled and refronted in early
C18. Originally timber-framed. Front of knapped flint rubble with brick quoins
and dressings; hipped old tile roof; brick rear end stack. Original plan form
not determined. 2 storeys, basement and attic; 3-window range. Flat hood over
C20 door. Brick segmental arched cellar windows; C20 flat arches over C20 sashes
on ground floor, and on first-floor flat brick arches over horned sashes.
Chequer brick storey band; moulded and modillioned wood cornice; C20 gabled roof
dormer. C20 rear extension. Interior: early C18 cellar. Exposed timber framing
and transverse beams with mortices; first-floor room to rear has arch-braced tie
beam. Quarter-turn stairs to rear right. Eaves raised and collar-truss roof
built in early C18. C16 house extended further to rear and was connected to
front range by a first-floor gallery on the right. No.36 to left: C17,
remodelled in late C18. Originally timber-framed. Front of late C18 colourwashed
brick; timber framing to rear; gabled old tile roof; brick rear lateral stack.
2-unit plan. 2 storeys; 3-window range. Rendered flat brick arches over C20 door
and 8-pane horned sashes; flat brick arches over late C19 two-light first-floor
casements. Dentilled eaves. C20 rear extensions. C19/C20 left extension not of
special architectural interest. Interior: exposed timber framing to rear. Beams
of late C18 raised first floor. Late C18 quarter-turn stairs adjoining fireplace
to rear. Arch-braced tie beams to C17 queen-post roof.

Listing NGR: SU6887294572

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26312132

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Recommended Books

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  Period property manual, victorian house manual 2 books collection set by ian rock
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]