White Hart Hotel
WHITE HART HOTEL, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1052616
- Date first listed:
- 23-Apr-1952
- List Entry Name:
- White Hart Hotel
- Statutory Address:
- WHITE HART HOTEL, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1052616
- Date first listed:
- 23-Apr-1952
- List Entry Name:
- White Hart Hotel
- Statutory Address 1:
- WHITE HART 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:
- WHITE HART 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:
- Chipping Norton
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 31388 27138
Details
CHIPPING NORTON HIGH STREET SP 3027-3127 3/21 White Hart Hotel 23.4.52 GV II* C16 timber frame structure, refronted in 1725 as dated on rainwater heads, ground floor remodelled and the whole refaced in the C20. Ashlar in local Baroque style with a gabled slate roof and 3 stone stacks. Three storeys, 6 bays, the centre 2 bays recessed. Moulded cornice. Rusticated quoins to top floor sill level, moulded and eared architraves with projecting keystones, brackets below and aprons above top floor windows. Sash windows throughout without glazing bars. A 3-light window replaces the central carriage arch and the inner window opening to the left-hand bay has been lengthened for a doorway. Fine painted hotel sign between the 2 central first floor windows. Inside, despite extensive remodelling, C16 features survive. The NW room on the first floor has a complete oak panelled scheme with fluted frieze and some carved ornamental panels. This room also has a wide stone fireplace with obtuse angled head, hollow spandrels and stop moulded jambs. There are 2 similar fireplaces on the ground floor. To the rear a stone tiled, rubble stone range with jettied upper storey now stuccoed, masking timber framing. The White Hart is an impressive interpretation by local masons of a Baroque style derived from Gibbs' Ditchley Park.
Listing NGR: SP3138827138
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 251632
- 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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