Unicorn Hotel
UNICORN HOTEL, MARKET PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1046325
- Date first listed:
- 05-May-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Unicorn Hotel
- Statutory Address:
- UNICORN HOTEL, MARKET PLACE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1046325
- Date first listed:
- 05-May-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Unicorn Hotel
- Statutory Address 1:
- UNICORN HOTEL, MARKET PLACE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- UNICORN HOTEL, MARKET PLACE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- Cherwell (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Deddington
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 46676 31628
Details
SP4631 DEDDINGTON MARKET PLACE (West side) 8/200 Unicorn Hotel
GV II Inn. Mid C17, remodelled and extended late C18/early C19. Rendered stone and brick walls; Welsh-slate roof with brick gable stacks. 2-unit through-passage plan extended to rear. 3 storeys. 3-window front has a wide central 4-panel door with a flat canopy below 12-pane sashes to first and second floors. Outer bays have 3-storey rectangular bay windows, at ground and first floors with renewed 5-light casements, at second floor with architraved 12-pane sashes to the front only. Right bay window has been partly extended to the left, at ground floor extending the window to 8 lights, but at first floor as a blind section, on the flat roof of which is the seated figure of a unicorn. Projecting boxed eaves break around the bay windows as a cornice. Shallow-pitched roof falls lower to rear above a brick extension. Stone wing returning from right has 16-pane sashes. Interior: C17 stop-chamfered joists and spine beam. (VCH: Oxfordshire: Vol XI, p87) '
Listing NGR: SP4667631628
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 243926
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1983), 87
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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