Description

SP1051 BIDFORD-ON-AVON CHURCH STREET
(North side)
10/29 Old Falcon Inn
01/02/67

- II*

Former Inn. Mid and late C16. Lias in alternating wide and narrow courses,
limestone dressings. Continuous stone drip-mould above 1st floor. Timber
framing with lath and plaster infill to one gable and rear. Tile roof; large
stone chimney stacks with renewed brick shafts. L-plan. High street frontage:
2-storey mid C16 four-window range has timber framed cross gable with leaded
casement. Stone mullioned windows throught. Late C20 French window on
ground floor. Church street frontage:2-window range and late C16 three storey
and attic 2 window range with 2 symmetrical gables. Door has 4-centred arch,
moulded architrave and hood mould. 1st floor has two 4-light windows with
transom. 3-light windows on 2nd floor, 2-light in gables. Wood and lead
gutters. Rear wholly of exposed timber framing. Interior altered: straight
flight staircase. Some exposed timber framing, with small amount of wattle
infill surviving in the attic.
(Victoria Country History of Warwickshire Vol III p.54; Buildings of England:
Warwickshire, pp.92-93).

Listing NGR: SP1008851913

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17551596

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