Listed Building: Nos.163-5 Watling Street West (13/185)

Former coaching inn, now used as offices and store. c.1770 with C19 and C20 alterations. Red brick in Flemish bond with flared headers, plain-tile roof, brick ridge and end stacks. Three-unit plan. 3-storey, 6-window range. Wide C20 double-leaf doors to left of centre in original carriage arch. 4 shallow canted C19 bay windows to ground floor; blocked door between those to right of centre. 12-pane sash windows to fist floor with gauged brick lintels and keyblocks. 9-pane sashes to attic floor. R plinth, serrated brick storey bands, and corbelled brick eaves. Interior has two open-well staircases in stair turrets to rear with turned balusters. Formerly the White Horse Inn and the town's principal coaching and posting inn. (Piggot's Directory for Northamptonshire, 1830, p.628; George James de Wilde, Ramblers Roundabout, 1872, pp.118-9).

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Jan 15 2015 10:32AM