The Golden Cross Hotel
THE GOLDEN CROSS HOTEL, 5, CORNMARKET STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1047323
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jan-1954
- List Entry Name:
- The Golden Cross Hotel
- Statutory Address:
- THE GOLDEN CROSS HOTEL, 5, CORNMARKET STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1047323
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jan-1954
- List Entry Name:
- The Golden Cross Hotel
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE GOLDEN CROSS HOTEL, 5, CORNMARKET STREET
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:
- THE GOLDEN CROSS HOTEL, 5, CORNMARKET STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- Oxford (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SP5134406238
Details
CORNMARKET STREET
1.
1485
(East Side)
No 5
(The Golden Cross
Hotel)
SP 5106 SW 8/304 12.1.54.
I GV
2.
RCHM 103. The buildings lie back from the street and are approached through
(1) a gateway, C15 leading to a courtyard. The Hotel consists of (2) a North
range, C15, (3) a South range, mainly rebuilt in late Cl7, and (4) the East
range, C19.
(1) The outer C15 gateway has moulded wood jambs, a 4-centred arch in a
square head with leaves carved in the spandrels. The North spandrel has
a shield of arms of New College and the shield on the South has been mutilated
by the insertion of telephone cables.
(2) The North range is a 2-storeyed plastered timber-framed structure with
attics in a Welsh slate roof. There is a C18 red brick shaft rising at
eaves level. The upper floor projects and has in it five original moulded
wood oriels supported on moulded coved cornices; the front lights of each
seem to be late Cl7 insertions.
Interior:- Some moulded ceiling beams; the oriels have internal 4- centred
arched heads. In the 2 lst floor rooms on the West are some good late
C16 wall paintings which in part are overlaid by some of early C17 date.
Interior remodeled in 1968.
(3) The South range is 3-storeyed timber-framed with 4 gabled projecting
bays. In the 1st and 2nd floors are, in the 3 westernmost bays, some original
3-light windows with semi-circular keystoned centre lights. The ground floor
has been modernised in parts.
Interior. Some C17 panelling and late Cl7 staircase. Interior remodeled
in 1968. Drawing by J C Buckler, 1824, in Boldeian M S Don A 2 No 26) History.
See "The Golden Cross" (1948) pages 19; Notes and queries. 193 (August 7
1948), 332 and Antiq Jnl XXVII (1947) Plate XIX.
Nos 1 to 3 (consec), 5, 8 to 10 (consec) and Nos 1 to 3 (consec) High Street
form a group.
Listing NGR: SP5134406238
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 245399
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Journal of the Society of Antiquaries of London in Journal of the Society of Antiquaries of London, Vol. 27, (1947), 150
Oxoniensia in Oxoniensia, Vol. 20, (1954)
Other
Notes and Queries, (1948)
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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