Saracen's Head Inn

Date:
22 Sep 2002
Location:
Saracen's Head Inn, 3 Brook Street, Daventry, Northamptonshire, NN11 5HN
Reference:
IOE01/07457/28
Type:
Photograph (Digital)
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Description

This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.

BROOK STREET 1.

5324 (West Side) No 3 (Saracen's Head Inn) SP 5762 1/7 4.12.53.

II* GV 2.

Mid C18. Rainwater head dated 1769. Front refaced in colourwashed roughcast.

Welsh slated roof. 2 storeys, 4 sash windows with glazing bars. Red brick yard elevations have ground floor pair of Venetian windows, arched panels, pedimented doorway. 3 Windows above alternate with arched niches containing terracotta statuettes.

Some chequered brickwork. Old tiled roofs with modillioned wood cornices. 2nd doorway Palladian with Greek Ionic half columns, side lights, central semi-circular traceried arch.

Interior: fine panelling, good original staircase with carved spandrels, turned balusters, moulded handrail, Doric newel posts.

Listing NGR: SP5712062503

Content

This is part of the Series: IOE01/1377 IOE Records taken by Michael E Megeary; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

Rights

© Mr Michael E. Megeary. Source: Historic England Archive

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project

People & Organisations

Photographer: Megeary, Michael E.

Rights Holder: Megeary, Michael E.

Keywords

Brick, Roughcast, Tile, Welsh Slate, Georgian Statue, Gardens Parks And Urban Spaces, Sculpture, Garden Ornament, Street Furniture, Inn, Commercial, Domestic, Residential Building, Rainwater Head, Water Supply And Drainage