Former Marlborough Hotel

28, Market Square, Witney, Oxfordshire, OX28 6BH

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1213446
Date first listed:: 06-Feb-1970
List Entry Name:: Former Marlborough Hotel
Statutory Address:: 28, Market Square, Witney, Oxfordshire, OX28 6BH

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1213446
Date first listed:: 06-Feb-1970
List Entry Name:: Former Marlborough Hotel
Statutory Address 1:: 28, Market Square, Witney, Oxfordshire, OX28 6BH

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

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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:: 28, Market Square, Witney, Oxfordshire, OX28 6BH

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

County:: Oxfordshire
District:: West Oxfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Witney
National Grid Reference:: SP 35567 09629

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 25 August 2023 to amend the name and address and to reformat the text to current standards

SP3509N 10/195

WITNEY MARKET SQUARE (West side) No 28

(Formerly listed as No.28 (Marlborough Hotel))

06/02/70

GV II

Hotel. c.1800, with earlier origins. Coursed limestone rubble; rendered front. Gabled Welsh slate roof; brick end stacks; C17 stack with stone and C17 brief flues to rear. L-plan with rear left range. Three storeys; five-window range. C20 door with overlight and bracketed cornice. Canted bay window with tripartite sash to left; one-storey projection of squared stone to right, with tripartite sashes flanking six-pane sash and carriage entry to right. First-floor eight-pane sashes and second-floor six-pane sashes set in moulded stone architraves; Marlborough Coat-of-arms in relief above door. Early C18 rear wing, of coursed limestone rubble with gabled stone slate roof with brick ridge stack; two storeys and attic; four-window range with late C18 tripartite sash and six-pane sashes; four hipped roof dormers with C20 casements: C18 L-shaped block further to rear, of similar materials with concrete tiles to rear.

Interior; C16 moulded partition beam to right of door. Early C19 quarter-turn stairs to rear. Rear wing has stop-chamfered beams.

Listing NGR: SP3556709629

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Legacy System number:: 398039
Legacy System:: LBS

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