ONE VILLAGE THE MARLBOROUGH ARMS HOTEL

ONE VILLAGE, 28, OXFORD STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1052822
Date first listed:: 18-Oct-1949
List Entry Name:: ONE VILLAGE THE MARLBOROUGH ARMS HOTEL
Statutory Address:: ONE VILLAGE, 28, OXFORD STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1052822
Date first listed:: 18-Oct-1949
Date of most recent amendment:: 27-Jul-1988
List Entry Name:: ONE VILLAGE THE MARLBOROUGH ARMS HOTEL
Statutory Address 1:: ONE VILLAGE, 28, OXFORD STREET
Statutory Address 2:: THE MARLBOROUGH ARMS HOTEL, 26, OXFORD STREET

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:: ONE VILLAGE, 28, OXFORD STREET
Statutory Address:: THE MARLBOROUGH ARMS HOTEL, 26, OXFORD STREET

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

County:: Oxfordshire
District:: West Oxfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Woodstock
National Grid Reference:: SP 44605 16763

Details

WOODSTOCK OXFORD STREET SP4416NE (East side) 10/176 Nos.26 and 28 (The Marlborough 18/10/49 Arms Hotel and One Village) (Formerly listed as The Marlborough Arms Hotel) GV II Hotel, now hotel and shop. c.1750, with earlier origins. Limestone ashlar; gabled concrete tile roofs; brick stacks. Courtyard plan. Georgian-style front. No.28 of 3-storey, symmetrical 4-window range: raised chamfered quoin strips and raised storey band; scrolled wrought-iron brackets support large flat hood over panelled double doors set in moulded stone architrave. Keyed stone lintels over 6-pane sashes and 6-pane second-floor sashes, all early C18 with thick glazing bars. Moulded cornice beneath rendered brick architrave. Front of No.26 to right of 3-storey and attic, 2-window range: similar sashes; segmental-arched carriage arch with imposts set in architectural frame with Tuscan pilasters to moulded entablature; storey band and late C18 dentilled wood cornice; 2 hipped roof dormers. Mid C18 rear left wing, of 2-storey-and-attic, 4-window range: canted bay window has Venetian doorway with thick glazing bars to flanking sashes; segmental arches over C19 two-light first-floor casements; C18 hipped roof dormers. 2-storey mid C18 ranges to rear and right of courtyard, with through-entry to rear; further C18 range to rear. Interior: mid C18 six-panelled doors throughout. Room to left has fine mid C18 panelling with pilasters framing keyed niche and marble fireplace with bracketed mantel. Rear hall has early C19 quarter-turn stairs with stick balusters, and mid C18 fireplace; mid C18 stone. fireplace with Marlborough Arms set in overmantle in rear room. History: mostly built in 1750s, but formerly the George Inn (recorded in 1469). In the 1750s, The Plough Inn - now Fox House and No.32 (q.v.) - was demolished and rebuilt and The George refronted to make the Marlborough Arms Hotel. Main elevation formerly surmounted by a pediment. (Information from VCH)

Listing NGR: SP4460516763

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Legacy System number:: 253168
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1969)

Legal

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