Listed Building: French Partridge Restaurant (1190112)

Restaurant and dwelling, formerly farmhouse and coaching inn. Late C17 and mid C18, altered C20. Older half of coursed limestone rubble, other half of red brick in English bond, both rendered to front, C20 ridged tile roofs, rendered brick and stone end, ridge and internal stacks. Single and double-depth plans. 2 storeys and attic; 9-window range. 4-window range to left of centre has "French" window to left of centre and C20 16-pane windows, probably replacing sash windows, with stone sills and rendered heads. 5-window range to right of centre has 4-panelled part-glazed door to far left flanked by painted stone Tuscan columns with plain frieze and timber pediment. C20 part-glazed door with overlight to right of centre with rendered surround. 12-pane sashes to ground & 1st floors with rendered heads. Ironstone plinths, quoins to left range, wood modillion eaves to right range, stone-coped gables with kneelers and C20 roof dormers. Right range has double-span roof. Interior: chamfered spine beams and re-arranged staircase with turned column-on-vase balusters. Formerly known as The Gunning Arms and at an earlier date Horton Inn Farm.

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Sep 7 2023 11:05AM