Rickmansworth: The Coach and Horses

Image: © Nigel Cox Taken: 19 Apr 2015

The Coach and Horses in the High Street is a Grade II Listed Building and the English Heritage website describes it thus:- "Public house. Probably late C16 or early C17, extended C18, refronted C19. Probable timber frame with stock brick front, red brick returns. Tiled roof. Originally 2 bays, extended to right, possibly an open hall. Floored and heated in C17. 3 window front. Entrance to left of centre with bracketed hood. Ground floor broad sashes with segmental heads. First floor 32 light casements. White brick quoining. Dentilled brick eaves. Central ridge stack. Left end external stack with large base is C17 with C19 cap. Tilehung gable behind stack. Extruded right end stack also has a large base. To rear left a long red brick and weatherboarded timber framed outbuilding. Continuous outshut to rear with catslide roof. Further C20 flat roofed 1 storey additions not of special interest." When your photographer approached the building the sound of a banging drum and wailing could be heard. Thinking this had to be the local Hare Krishna group getting warmed up, it turned out to be a group of Liverpool fans getting juiced up for the FA Cup semi-final against Aston Villa at Wembley later in the day. No doubt the wailing continued long into the night as Villa won 2-1.

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