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

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