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The Waggon & Horses was situated at 13 Castle Street. This grade-II listed pub closed in 1917 and is now used as an antiques shop.

Listed building details:

One building, houses, now shops. C16, substantially rebuilt early C18, extended and altered C19. Timber-framed, plastered, old tiled roofs with moulded eaves cornice at front and unequal gabled outshuts at rear. Exterior: first floor has 2 flush-set 12-pane sash windows with architrave surrounds, with plastered front divided into large raised panels. Jettied first floor with C19 shopfronts on ground floor below, and fascias on bressumer. Closed plate glass display windows, half-glazed doors, with bolection surrounded lower panels and slim fanlights. Door to No.25 Parliament Square has slim pilaster surround with incised grooves. To roof 2 dormers with margin-glazed windows, and hipped roofs. Interiors: timber framing exposed inside both shops; in No.13 Castle Street downward curved bracing indicates C16 origin of building, which incorporates a lower 2 bay outshut with a pegged rafter roof. No.25 Parliament Square has a central chamfered beam with tongue stop above ground floor, steep winder stair alongside fireplace and party wall, wide boarded cambered first floor, corner fireplace.

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