Former Marlborough Hotel
28, Market Square, Witney, Oxfordshire, OX28 6BH
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Overview
- 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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- 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
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:
- 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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 398039
- 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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