Elephant and Castle Hotel

ELEPHANT AND CASTLE HOTEL, 6, MIDDLETON ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1369549
Date first listed:
04-Feb-1986
List Entry Name:
Elephant and Castle Hotel
Statutory Address:
ELEPHANT AND CASTLE HOTEL, 6, MIDDLETON ROAD
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1369549
Date first listed:
04-Feb-1986
List Entry Name:
Elephant and Castle Hotel
Statutory Address 1:
ELEPHANT AND CASTLE HOTEL, 6, MIDDLETON ROAD

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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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:
ELEPHANT AND CASTLE HOTEL, 6, MIDDLETON ROAD

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 46217 40620

Details

BANBURY MIDDLETON ROAD SP4640NW (East side) Grimsbury 8/127 No.6 (Elephant and Castle Hotel) - II

House, now hotel and public house. Late C17/early C18. Regular coursed ironstone rubble. Steeply pitched slate roof. Ironstone copings to left and right. Ironstone quoins. Brick ridge and end stacks to right on rendered stone bases. 2 storeys plus attic. 3-window range. 3-unit plan. Central entrance has 4-centred arched doorway with chamfered soffit and jambs. C20 door. Doorway is flanked by C20 windows with chamfered wooden lintels. 3 similar renewed C20 windows to first floor have chamfered wooden lintels. 2 flat-roofed roof dormers. 2-storey extension to rear left: ironstone with slate roof. Plank door to left with wooden lintel. C20 windows to ground and first floor. Interior not inspected. Large red brick extension attached to the right is not of special architectural interest.

Listing NGR: SP4621740620

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
244427
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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