Shaven Crown Hotel
SHAVEN CROWN HOTEL, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1052553
- Date first listed:
- 27-Aug-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Shaven Crown Hotel
- Statutory Address:
- SHAVEN CROWN HOTEL, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1052553
- Date first listed:
- 27-Aug-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Shaven Crown Hotel
- Statutory Address 1:
- SHAVEN CROWN HOTEL, HIGH 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:
- SHAVEN CROWN HOTEL, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- West Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Shipton-under-Wychwood
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 27840 17850
Details
SP 2617-2717
7/74
SHIPTON-UNDER-WYCHWOOD
HIGH STREET (west side)
Shaven Crown Hotel
27.8.56
GV
II*
Medieval hostelry; hall house. Late C14 or C15, altered C16 and modernised and
restored in C20. Rubble with freestone dressings, Cotswold stone roofs with coped
verges, irregular chimneys, some (now) dummy. Courtyard plan with hall to road and
two-storey flanking projecting wings, the right-hand one noticeably at an angle.
Mullioned windows with labels. Through passage to right of hall with large high and
moulded Tudor arch entries with panelled spandrels and labels, early plank door
retaining one possibly medieval hinge. The hall has two two-light windows with
decorated heads to right of entry (? staircase). The left-hand wing has a two-light
foiled head first floor window and an original octagonal chimney stack with small
corbel-heads.
Inside: hall with spere truss, restored screen and four-bay roof structure, moulded
timbers, arch braced trusses, two minor and central principal, apparently a raised
cruck, two rows of windbraces; Tudor arched doorway at north-west end, a further
similar door to first floor above (? stairs). The room over the north end was
probably the solar with roughly arched plaster vault. In the north wing is an
inserted C15 fireplace and a C17 fireplace in another room, beyond which is a
one-bay manor dovecote. Attractive irregular elevations to courtyard with four-bay
west range (slate roofed) containing a large C17 fireplace.
Listing NGR: SP2784017850
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 251788
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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