Building record 727/0/41 - No.118 Watling Street East

{1} Shop with accomodation above, original use not known. Circa C16th, remodelled in C19th. Timber framed, rendered and front refaced or rebuilt in brick. Gable-ended roofs; slate at front, plain tiled at rear. Brick axial stack. Plan: Long range at right angles to road, the front, south west, section of which was rebuilt in C19. 3 storeys. Symmetrical 1 window front. C20 shop front, canted first floor bay window above with moulded cornice and C20 casement on second floor. 3 storey wing at rear with bri . Ck and attached 2 storey wing with later extension. Interior: Chamfered intersecting beam ceiling on first floor and winder staircase from first to second floor of rear range. 3 1/2 bay roof survives in rear wing. Trusses B C and D have chamfered arched bracing to cambered collars; arched bracing to truss D (possibly over upper end chamber) spring from below wall plate level from carved wooden shield corbels; perhaps a jointed raised cruck truss; diagonally set ridge-piece, tren . Of truss C and threaded through trusses B and D; chamfered butt purlins with curved wind braces. The ridge-piece truncated where front range has been rebuilt at right angles to it and parallel to road. Note: The surviving 3 1/2 bays of the original rear range were open to the roof from the first or ground floors and the rebuilt front range was probably always 3 storeys.

{2} Building circa. 16th century, remodelled in the 19th century. Symmetrical 1-window front. 3 storey wing at rear and attached 2-storey wing with later extension. Timber framed. Became in recent times shop and house. 20th century shop front.

<1> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 13/214 (Digital archive). SNN102353.

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

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Jan 14 2015 2:26PM