Description

SU 54 NE NORTH WALTHAM
14/24
26.4.57 The Wheatsheaf Inn

II

C18, and later. The main facade faces west and comprises a blind arcade of 5 units,
each bay containing a window on the first and ground-floor. Red tile roofing, rounded
at the south-west corner, moulded brick dentil eaves. Red brick walling in Flemish
bond; the pilasters have flint impost bands and keystones, the openings have rubbed
flat arches. Above the ground floor arch and entirely within the arcade there are blue
headers and a blue band above each extrados; stone cills, cement plinth. Sashes in
reveals. To the north side there is a further bay and then a long lower 2-storeyed
wing to the south side. The corner is rounded, with a ground-floor window. The east
facade is symmetrical (2 storeys and attic and 3 upper windows) with 2 flat-roofed
dormers; between the windows blue headers make diamond patterns. The ground-floor has
a projecting C20 block, with a 3-light window on each side of a recesed entrance, and a
parapet rising in the centre as a semi-circle to enclose a sculptured sheaf. Several
rear extensions of the mid-C19.

Listing NGR: SU5636446529

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26474361

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Recommended Books

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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)