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Long Street, ATHERSTONE, CV9 1AB

What you see is what you get

This etched glass window at the front of the Bubble Inn (formerly White Horse) on Long Street is a rare reminder of Phillips and Marriott's brewery of Coventry. The brewery was taken over and closed down in 1924 - so this pub has advertised a product which it couldn't sell for nearly a century! The window is reflecting the street and the photographer.

Long Street is Atherstone's main shopping street. The town's post office is incorporated in the branch of McColl's on the immediate left. Just beyond that is the Red Lion Hotel, an old coaching inn, and on the right is the Old Bakery Cafe.

Finial - 3 arms; by the B4116 (was A5), in parish of Atherstone (North Warwickshire District), 94 Long Street, on face of building for Old Bakery Café, opposite Coleshill Street. Ceramic tiles with fingers. Inscription reads:- {<-hand} HOLYHEAD DAVENTRY {hand->} AND LONDON {hand->} The building is Grade II listed. List Entry Number: 1034786 https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1034786 To be surveyed Milestone Society National ID: WA_SP3097

Metal plate attached to stone post by the UC road (was A5), in parish of ATHERSTONE (NORTH WARWICKSHIRE District), Long Street; attached to Red Lion Hotel, in pavement, back to wall, on Northeast side of road. Erected by an unknown authority in the 19th century. Inscription reads:- : TO / Lutterworth / 17¾ Ms : : To London / 100 / Ms. : : TO / Litchfield / 15 : Grade II listed. List Entry Number: 1365158 https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1365158 Milestone Society National ID: WA_LCLU15.

A 1972 Vauxhall Viva at the 2011 classic car show: http://atherstoneclassiccarshow.blogspot.com/

Grade II listed. Listing number 1299832. House, attached railings and coach house and stable block; part of row. Dated 1711, but front appears to be entirely of c.1775. Flemish bond brick with rendered dressings and moulded and dentil cornice. Slate roofs; brick ridge stacks. L-plan, with wings on left to rear. 3 storeys; 1-3-1 bays. Centre projects very slightly. Fielded 6-panelled door has fanlight with husk garland, and Doric doorcase of half-columns with fluted capitals, entablature and pediment. Second and fourth bays have break-front tripartite sashes with thin Tuscan half-columns and pilasters. First bay has large rusticated rendered basket arch with flush 6-panelled double doors. Date plaque above is C19/C20. Fifth bay has early C19 alterations, probably for shop or bank premises. Panelled wood pilasters and a continuous entablature enclose a flush 6-panelled door with fanlight set in an overlight, and two 16-pane sashes with reeded wood surround. First floor has sill course. Sashes, 6-pane to second floor, have gauged brick flat arches. Central windows have moulded surrounds, shouldered and with fluted entablature and cornice to first floor. Cast iron railings are partly late C18/early C19. Coach house and stable block to rear is early C19. Flemish bond brick with brick dentil cornice. Slate roof. 2 storeys; 7 bays of varying widths. First bay has plank door with fanlight, second bay has round-arched window, and has loft door with fanlight above. Third, fourth and fifth bays, have large, almost round arches. Third bay has double doors. The others are blank, with a segmental-arched plank door to the fourth bay, and a later opening inserted in the fifth. Narrow sixth bay has round arched opening, with plank door; similar seventh bay is blocked. First floor has rendered blind circular openings. End wall has similar blind opening. Pedimented gable has blind lunette.

Old milestone on what was the A.5 at Atherstone, Warwickshire. For overall view see http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5190603

Atherstone is typical of towns that would once have had a number of banks but is now gradually losing them as on-line banking becomes more popular. This former HSBC bank, a grade II listed building dating from 1837, is now a branch of Specsavers.

Old milestone next toplanter on what was the A.5 at Atherstone, Warwickshire. For close up view see http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5190594