Description

WALLINGFORD CASTLE STREET
SU6089NE, SU6089SE (East side)
Wallingford
10/63, 11/63 The Lamb Arcade
09/12/49 (Formerly listed as Lamb Inn,
High Street)

GV II

Coaching inn, now arcade of shops. Mid C17 to rear. Early C18 front range, late
C19 additions to rear, C20 alterations. Rendered brick plinth; grey brick with
red brick dressings; old plain-tile roof; brick end stacks. Courtyard plan.
3-storey, 5-window range to High Street. Central basket-arched carriage opening
having stone dropped keystone, with C20 glazed doors forming recessed porch.
12-pane unhorned sashes with segmental brick heads with keystones to ground and
first floors. Painted flat band between ground and first floors. 9-pane unhorned
sashes with segmental brick heads with keystones to second floor. Dentil course
to eaves. Left return: mid C17 to centre, end of early C18 range to right, late
C19 range to left. Rendered plinth; red brick to right; render, on timber
framing to centre; C19 red brick to left; render, probably on brick, to first
floor left. 3-storey end of range to right. 2 storeys and attic; 8-window range
to centre. 2 angled bays with horizontal sashes to right. 5-light wood ovolo
mullioned window to left of centre. 3-light window to left. Jettied first floor.
12-pane unhorned sash to left. 4-light wood ovolo moulded window to left. Pair
of 16-pane unhorned sashes to left of centre. Two 4-light wood ovolo mullioned
windows to centre. Pair of 16-pane unhorned sashes to right of centre. 2 jettied
cross-gables to left and right of centre with 4-light casements. C19 extension
to left: 2-storey, 2-window range of irregular fenestration. Interior: C20
dog-leg staircase with landings. Areas of timber-framing visible to interior.
Some blocked fireplaces. Early C18 addition to right of High Street front, which
has probably formerly part of adjoining property, National Westminster Bank
(q.v.). 3-storey, single-window range. Tripartite sashes to each floor. Flat
brick between ground and first floors and between first and second floors.
Cornice and parapet to eaves. History: Silvanus Wiggins, landlord, entertained
William of Orange, en route to London to take the crown, in 1688.
('Some Notes on the Domestic Architecture of Wallingford, Berkshire" by P.S.
Stokes in "Berkshire Archaeological Journal", Vol.50, 1947).

Listing NGR: SU6074389502

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26573500

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