Description

SS 80 SW SANDFORD THE SQUARE
(north side), Sandford

3/271 The Lamb Inn including
raised pavement to south

GV II

House, now public house. C16 core, improved in C17, altered and modernised in C19
and C20. Partly plastered volcanic rubble some of which is coursed roughly squared
blocks; slate roof (originally thatch). Much-altered 3-room-and-through-passage
house facing south with former inner room at right (east) end. End stacks to inner
and service rooms and lateral hall stack projecting to front. 2 storeys.
Irregular 3-window front. Inner room end is slightly higher than rest and a
straight joint between 2 builds can be seen at first floor level. This end has C19
door, and early C19 tripartite sash windows with central 16-pane sashes on each
floor with 4 panes over 8 and at left end service room has first floor 9-pane sash
and ground floor C20 casement set within blocked late C19 shopfront with pilasters
and entablature. All sashes hornless with much old glass surviving. 6-panel door
to passage with late C19 monopitch hood on shaped brackets. The projecting hall
stack to right of door is of dressed volcanic stone blocks with late C16-early C17
chimney shaft and cap. Interior has been much altered although position of through
passage is still discernable. A section of C16 oak plank-and-muntin screen from
lower side of passage is now set on back wall. C17 axial beam to hall is chamfered
with bar-scroll stops. Plain chamfered beam to inner room. Roof completely
renewed in C19. Raised pitched stone pavement with volcanic rubble revetment and
volcanic stone kerb to front (south) of the Lamb Inn has simple iron rail on wooden
posts and includes a pitched stone ramp.

Listing NGR: SS8280602487

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26536161

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Recommended Books

• 
  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
• 
  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)