Blue Boar Hotel

BLUE BOAR HOTEL, 4, NEWBURY STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1368486
Date first listed:
03-Dec-1969
List Entry Name:
Blue Boar Hotel
Statutory Address:
BLUE BOAR HOTEL, 4, NEWBURY STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1368486
Date first listed:
03-Dec-1969
Date of most recent amendment:
06-Dec-1985
List Entry Name:
Blue Boar Hotel
Statutory Address 1:
BLUE BOAR HOTEL, 4, NEWBURY 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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
BLUE BOAR HOTEL, 4, NEWBURY STREET

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

County:
Oxfordshire
District:
Vale of White Horse (District Authority)
Parish:
Wantage
National Grid Reference:
SU 39862 87854

Details

WANTAGE NEWBURY STREET SU3987NE (West side) 9/139 No.4 (Blue Boar Hotel) 03/12/69 (Formerly listed as No.4 Blue Boar Public House)

GV II

House, now inn. c.1740. Rendered ground floor, Flemish bond brick with flared headers to first floor; old and C20 tile roof; red and flared brick stack to left, brick stack. T-plan. 2 storeys and attic; 4-window range. Carved brackets to flat hood over C20 door in moulded architrave to left. Mid C19 six-pane sashes to all windows. Gauged brick flat arches with keystones over first-floor windows. Dentilled eaves. Early C19 sash to roof dormer. Mansard roof; ridge stack to left, rear internal stack. Sashes in similar surrounds to rear. Mid C18 two-storey wing to right of flared brick with red brick quoins and dressings; keyed stone lintels over C18 first-floor sashes; parapet; hipped old tile roof and brick lateral stack. Interior: First and second floors not inspected.

Listing NGR: SU3985487857

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
251237
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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