Description

SP4631 DEDDINGTON MARKET PLACE (West side) 8/200 Unicorn Hotel

GV II Inn. Mid C17, remodelled and extended late C18/early C19. Rendered stone and brick walls; Welsh-slate roof with brick gable stacks. 2-unit through-passage plan extended to rear. 3 storeys. 3-window front has a wide central 4-panel door with a flat canopy below 12-pane sashes to first and second floors. Outer bays have 3-storey rectangular bay windows, at ground and first floors with renewed 5-light casements, at second floor with architraved 12-pane sashes to the front only. Right bay window has been partly extended to the left, at ground floor extending the window to 8 lights, but at first floor as a blind section, on the flat roof of which is the seated figure of a unicorn. Projecting boxed eaves break around the bay windows as a cornice. Shallow-pitched roof falls lower to rear above a brick extension. Stone wing returning from right has 16-pane sashes. Interior: C17 stop-chamfered joists and spine beam. (VCH: Oxfordshire: Vol XI, p87) '

Listing NGR: SP4667631628

External Links

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