Description

TQ 93 SE WAREHORNE CHURCH ROAD
(north side)
5/148 The Woolpack
Inn
GV II
Public house. Late C17, extended early Cl9. Painted brick with tile
hanging to left return, and extended with weather boarded range.
Plain tiled roof. Lobby entry plan. Two storeys and attic on plinth
with dogtooth cornice to hipped roof with 2 raking dormers and stack
to centre left. Wooden casement and glazing bar sash on 1st floor,
and segmentally headed wooden casement and tripartite glazing bar sash
on ground floor. The right hand weather boarded block is windowless,
though with 2 fine canted 2 storey bays on right return. Catslide outshot
to left return. Boarded door to centre left, in projecting 2 storey
flat roofed porch, the cornice carried across the top, with painted
sign board and iron lamp over. The cellars appear to have a well
attested tunnel leading under the road to the church of St. Matthew
opposite. (A renowned smuggling centre). (See Waugh - Smuggling in
Kent and Sussex, 66 and 69).

Listing NGR: TQ9894832562

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• The Woolpack Inn official website
• Wikidata Q26480745

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Recommended Books

• 
  For the Record
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)