Building record 727/0/39 - No.98/98A Watling Street East

Pair of shops. Built in the 17th century, refronted in the early 19th century. Rendered brick, slate roof, brick end stacks. Tree-ring dating has confirmed a late 17th-century date for the construction of 98A.

{1} Pair of shops. C17, refronted early C19. Rendered brick, slate roof, brick end stacks. 2-unit plan. 2-storey, 2-window range. C19 shop fronts to ground floor; door to shop to left flanked by Doric pillars. First floor has Ionic pilasters to centre and ends. Two bay windows with rounded corners with 16-pane sashes to front, 8-pane curved sashes to sides and moulded cornice. Entablature and parapet with concrete slab coping. Interior not inspected.

{3} Undated photo.

{4} Twelve samples were taken from various elements in the two roofs and the basement. Two samples had too few rings for further analysis to be carried out, but eight of the remaining samples were dated. These show the two roofs and basement to be broadly coeval, using timbers most likely felled in the AD 1680s and early AD 1690s, with one timber having a precise felling date of winter AD 1689/90.

<1> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 13/162 (Digital archive). SNN102353.

<2> List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest ("Greenback"), F08 p.75 (unchecked) (Catalogue). SNN45262.

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

<4> Bridge, M and Tyers, C, 2023, 98A Watling Street East, Towcester, Northamptonshire: Tree-ring dating of Oak Timbers (Report). SNN115941.

Record last edited

Jan 25 2024 2:03PM