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

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26298470

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Recommended Books

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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)