Description

WATLINGTON STREET 1. 5128 (West Side) No 44 (Watlington House) SU 7273 7/257 22.3.57. II 2. In 2 parts The western part built 1688 for Samuel and Anne Watlington, see rainwaterheads: 1688 W S A The eastern part said to have been added 1763 (Probably earlier). The whole is a rectangle of red and silver grey brick with a raised brick string at 1st floor level. Moulded and bracketed wood eaves cornice. Hipped old tile roof, brick end chimneys, dormered to west; valley roof with dormers facing valley. East front: 2 storeys and attic with modillion eaves cornice. 2 large flanking 3-light windows, glazing bar sashes and 2 dormers. Central, possibly circa 1688, double doors each of 5 heavily moulded panels with moulded architrave surround, frieze and cornice supported by flanking curved consoles and with carved keystone. Cornice breaks forward over consoles. Single central 1st floor window over. The west front: 2 storeys, attic and basement. 4 dormers with moulded pediments and C18 casements. 4 ranges of C18 glazing bar sash windows over 4 basement windows and central garden door with moulded architrave surround in trellis porch and central half-landing stair window above it under a moulded brick pediment. A single storey service wing to right. Original mullion and transom windows on ground floor of north front. Interior: panelled hall with 2 arch screen on fluted piers. Turned balusters to stairs (straight string), double ramped nmhogazy dado rail and baluster rail, panelled. dado (circa 1740 probably). Samuel Watlington was Mayor of Reading in 1695 and in 1711.

Listing NGR: SU7224773167

External Links

• Watlington House at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q7974738

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