Nationwide and Entrance to Unicorn Hotel
18, MARKET PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1369548
- Date first listed:
- 09-Apr-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Nationwide and Entrance to Unicorn Hotel
- Statutory Address:
- 18, MARKET PLACE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1369548
- Date first listed:
- 09-Apr-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 14-Feb-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Nationwide and Entrance to Unicorn Hotel
- Statutory Address 1:
- 18, MARKET PLACE
- Statutory Address 2:
- NATIONWIDE AND ENTRANCE TO UNICORN HOTEL, 19, MARKET PLACE
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:
- 18, MARKET PLACE
- Statutory Address:
- NATIONWIDE AND ENTRANCE TO UNICORN HOTEL, 19, MARKET PLACE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- Cherwell (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Banbury
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 45611 40624
Details
BANBURY MARKET PLACE SP4540NE (South side) 7/123 Nos.18 and 19 (Nationwide) and 09/04/52 entrance to Unicorn Hotel (Formerly listed as No.18 and No.19 and Archway Entrance to No.20 Unicorn Inn))
GV II*
Inn, now house and shops. Mid C17. One build. Roughcast. Stone slate roof laid to diminishing courses. Brick ridge stack. 2 storeys plus attic. 3-window range. C20 shop front to left. Carriageway entrance to Unicorn Hotel to right has moulded, stop chamfered jambs and panelled doors and is dated 1648 on spandrels. First floor has 3 bow windows with renewed casements. 3 gable-front dormers have renewed 3-light casements, renewed bargeboards and pendants. Deeply projected eaves. Moulded beam with pendants, extends full length of attic floor. Courtyard to rear. Interior: first floor has C17 stone fireplace, fragment of C17 block printed wall paper on beam, 4-light wood mullioned window with original glazing. (V.C.H.: Oxfordshire, Vol. X, pp.30-33; Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, 1974, p.439).
Listing NGR: SP4561140624
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 244423
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1972), 30-33
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 439
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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