Building record 1933/26/1 - No.35 High Street (Tudor Gate Hotel)

Farmhouse, now hotel. Probably partly early C18 but mainly as of reset datestone OW/1826. Squared coursed ironstone façade and limestone rear with slate roof. icensed as the Gate Inn about mid C19 until 1955.

{1} Farmhouse, now hotel. Probably partly early C18 but mainly as of reset datestone OW/1826. Squared coursed ironstone façade and limestone rear with slate roof. Originally 3-unit plan. 3 storeys, 4-window range of 3-light casements with leaded lights, some renewed; all under wood lintels. One horizontal sliding sash to ground floor far left. C20 door to right of centre has arch head with early C19 fanlight with intersecting glazing bars. Blocked door to right of centre. Brick stacks at ridge and end. Evidence of early C18 building in left gable. C20 extensions to rear not of special architectural interest. Interior not inspected but noted as having some ceiling beams. Licensed as the Gate Inn about mid C19 until 1955. (Finedon Otherwise Thingden by J.L.H. Bailey, p.153).

{3} Gate Inn, High Street. Stone built building shown on early Ordnance Survey maps as 'Gate Inn'. Now used as a hotel 'Tudor Gate Hotel'. Film 2, photo 16

{4} The earliest depiction of the farmhouse is on a plan of land of 1721. In 1826 the T-shaped farmhouse was either demolished or modified by Owen Wallis. Wallis died in 1834 and his widow appears to have carried on with the farm. Sometime afterwards she began selling beer and the Gate Inn was created. Between 1884 and 1900 the tenements to the west of the inn are modified with the addition of the present building on the frontage of High Street. The Gate Inn was closed in 1955. It was initially converted to flats but was later reopened as a hotel and restaurant called The Tudor gate Hotel.
Both buildings had been much modified when they were converted to hotel use, with very little of any early room plans or architectural elements surviving. All of the doors had been replaced with modern fire doors. However, the survey was able to broadly phase the building, using a combination of the historic map evidence and the building survey.

{6} Undated photo;

<1> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 6/24 (checked) (Digital archive). SNN102353.

<2> 1986, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest ("Greenback"), G04 (unchecked) (Catalogue). SNN100394.

<3> Ballinger J., 1999, Northamptonshire Extensive Urban Survey: Industrial Period, (unchecked) (Digital archive). SNN4.

<4> Upson-Smith T.; Walker C., 2012, Building Recording at the Former Tudor Gate Hotel, 29-35 High Street, Finedon, Northamptonshire May 2012, (checked) (Report). SNN108284.

<5> Bailey J.L.H., 1975, Finedon Otherwise Thingdon: A History of Finedon, p.153 (unchecked) (Book). SNN105040.

<6> Photographs of buildings in Finedon (Photographs). SNN111732.

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