Description

NY 5261 BRAMPTON FRONT STREET
BRAMPTON (South side)

15/24 Howard Arms Hotel

G.V. II

Hotel, formerly coaching inn. Late C18. Incised painted stucco, chamfered
plinth, flush quoins, stone dressings, slate roof with projecting eaves, yellow
brick chimney stacks. 3 storeys, 2 bays. Entrance has C20 panelled doors, with
plain surround and C20 projecting wooden hood porch. Tripartite sash windows
with glazing bars have painted stone surrounds: C20 louvred shutters flank each
window. Above entrance is carved inn sign of bunch of grapes, probably late C18
or early C19. Listing includes the 3 storey, 3 bay extension, in yard to rear
(The Snooty Fox), with arched carriage passage, C20 recessed entrance, sash
windows with glazing bars and plain stone surrounds. Listing does not include
the very much altered stable block, enclosing stable yard to right. See advert
Cumberland Pacquet, 21 May 1793. Richard Smirke, 1778-1815, architectural
draughtsman and watercolourist, (brother of Sir Robert Smirke) died here: see
Gentlemans Magazine, 1815, i, p477.

Listing NGR: NY5298761040

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26620119

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