Building record 727/0/52 - No.167 Watling Street West

{1} House, now offices. Late C18, altered C19 and C20. Painted brick, slate roof, brick end stacks. 2-unit plan. 3-storey, 3-window range. Central part-glazed door with overlight and fanlight in pilastered timber surround with panelled reveals and opened pediment on sections of entablature on brackets. Two-storey canted bay windows to left and right. Blank windows to first and second floor centre with gauged brick lintels and keyblocks. A 3-light C20 casement to second floor left, a similar 2-light casement to second floor right with brick lintels. Moulded stone cornice (painted). Interior has dog-leg staircase from ground floor to attic with slender turned balusters. One late C18 style carved wood chimneypiece in ground floor room.

{3} Undated photo;

<1> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 13/186 (Digital archive). SNN102353.

<2> List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest ("Greenback"), F08 p.85 (unchecked) (Catalogue). SNN45262.

<3> Photographs of buildings in Towcester (Photographs). SNN114425.

Record last edited

Jan 18 2023 10:54AM