Ann Elizabeth Health Foods the Reindeer Inn
ANN ELIZABETH HEALTH FOODS, 48, PARSON'S STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1369571
- Date first listed:
- 09-Apr-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Ann Elizabeth Health Foods the Reindeer Inn
- Statutory Address:
- ANN ELIZABETH HEALTH FOODS, 48, PARSON'S STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1369571
- Date first listed:
- 09-Apr-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 14-Feb-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Ann Elizabeth Health Foods the Reindeer Inn
- Statutory Address 1:
- ANN ELIZABETH HEALTH FOODS, 48, PARSON'S STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- THE REINDEER INN, 47, PARSON'S STREET
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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:
- ANN ELIZABETH HEALTH FOODS, 48, PARSON'S STREET
- Statutory Address:
- THE REINDEER INN, 47, PARSON'S STREET
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 45497 40643
Details
BANBURY PARSON'S STREET SP4540NW, SP4540NE (North side) 6/157, 7/157 No.47 (The Reindeer Inn) and 09/04/52 No.48 (Ann Elizabeth Health Foods) (Formerly listed as Nos.47 (Reindeer Hotel) and No.48) GV II*
Public house and shop once wholly comprising The Reindeer Inn. Early/mid C16 with additions of 1570, 1624 and 1637. Now No.47 to left forms the Reindeer Inn and No.48 a shop to right. No.47: originally early to mid C16 with rear additions dated 1624 and 1637 (Globe Room). No.48 of c.1570 including carriage entrance. Gates inscribed and dated: 1570 IHON KNIGHT * IHONE KNIGHT * DAVID HORN. Mixed stone and timber construction. No.47: limestone and stucco. No.48: star patterned timber framing above carriage entrance and roughcast first floor. Welsh slate roof. Brick ridge stack. 2 storeys plus attic. 6-window range. Courtyard plan formed by L-shaped ranges. Ground floor to No.47 has 6 renewed sashes and 6-panelled door. Carriage entrance off-centre to right has panelled gates with wooden pegs. C20 shop front to right. First floor No.47: 3 wooden mullioned and transomed windows with opening casements; large wooden mullioned and transomed window above carriage entrance; No.48 has 2 sashes with glazing bars and moulded wood surrounds. 5 gabled roof dormers with moulded eaves and openings casements. Rear to No.47: 2-storey and roughcast over timber frame includes C17 additions. Globe Room has a renewed wooden mullioned window and a 6-light stone mullioned window with hood mould and label stops to cellar. Rear to No.48: 3-storey range with jetty at second floor. Renewed casements within oriel windows in second floor. Double gabled dormer above carriage entrance. Interior of Globe Room: C17 panelling and interior porch. Plaster casts of the ceiling are in the Victoria and Albert Museum. Roof to No.47 reputed to have arched windbraces. (Photographs in N.M.R.; V.C.H.: Oxfordshire, Vol.X, pp.29, 32 and 33; Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, 1974, p.443; Potts, W., A History of Banbury, 1958, pp.129-131; Laithwaite, M., The Reindeer Inn and Trinder, B.S. The Globe Room in Cake and Cockhorse, Vol.2, No. 10, Nov.1964, pp.159-174).
Listing NGR: SP4549740643
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 244457
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Laithwaite, M, The Reindeer Inn, ()
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1972), 29 32 33
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 443
Potts, W, A History of Banbury, (1958), 129-131
Trinder, B, Cake and Cockhorse in The Globe Room, Vol. 2, (1964), 159-174
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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