WHATELY HALL HOTEL

WHATELY HALL HOTEL, 16, 17, 18 AND 19, HORSE FAIR

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1046953
Date first listed:: 09-Apr-1952
List Entry Name:: WHATELY HALL HOTEL
Statutory Address:: WHATELY HALL HOTEL, 16, 17, 18 AND 19, HORSE FAIR

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1046953
Date first listed:: 09-Apr-1952
Date of most recent amendment:: 14-Feb-1986
List Entry Name:: WHATELY HALL HOTEL
Statutory Address 1:: WHATELY HALL HOTEL, 16, 17, 18 AND 19, HORSE FAIR

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: WHATELY HALL HOTEL, 16, 17, 18 AND 19, HORSE FAIR

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Oxfordshire
District:: Cherwell (District Authority)
Parish:: Banbury
National Grid Reference:: SP 45306 40506

Details

BANBURY HORSE FAIR SP4540NW, SP4540SW (West side) 6/97, 9/97 Nos.16,17,18 and 19 (Whately 09/04/52 Hall Hotel) (Formerly listed as No.16 part of Whateley Hall Hotel) GV II

Hotel. C17 with later alterations and additions including C20 front. Dated 1652 to rear. 1949 restoration work to No.19 bears inscription: "Architect Thos. W. Knight. Mason fixer G.H. Paintain". 3 ranges. 2 storeys plus attic throughout. Ironstone ashlar. Stone slate roofs to front, plain tile to rear. Stone ridge, lateral and end stacks. Tudor Revival front elevation has bay windows, stone mullioned and transomed windows with hood moulds and label stops and gable front attic dormers. 5 entrances including reset original 4-centred arched doorway to main entrance. Rear elevation: 2 storeys plus attics. 4 gabled bays. Crenellated 2-storey bay window to left. Renewed gabled bay to right. 3,5 and 6-light stone-mullioned windows with hood moulds and label stops. Renewed stonework in most windows. Renewed stone doorways. Interior: C17 open well staircase with a moulded handrail and C18 twisted balusters. Oak panelling. (Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, 1974, p.443; Potts, W.: A History of Banbury, 1978, p.205; V.C.H.: Oxfordshire, Vol.X, p.29).

Listing NGR: SP4526840481

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Legacy System number:: 244396
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 443
Potts, W , A History of Banbury, (1958), 205
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1972), 29

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.