Description

SP 2617-2717
7/74

SHIPTON-UNDER-WYCHWOOD
HIGH STREET (west side)
Shaven Crown Hotel

27.8.56

GV
II*
Medieval hostelry; hall house. Late C14 or C15, altered C16 and modernised and
restored in C20. Rubble with freestone dressings, Cotswold stone roofs with coped
verges, irregular chimneys, some (now) dummy. Courtyard plan with hall to road and
two-storey flanking projecting wings, the right-hand one noticeably at an angle.
Mullioned windows with labels. Through passage to right of hall with large high and
moulded Tudor arch entries with panelled spandrels and labels, early plank door
retaining one possibly medieval hinge. The hall has two two-light windows with
decorated heads to right of entry (? staircase). The left-hand wing has a two-light
foiled head first floor window and an original octagonal chimney stack with small
corbel-heads.
Inside: hall with spere truss, restored screen and four-bay roof structure, moulded
timbers, arch braced trusses, two minor and central principal, apparently a raised
cruck, two rows of windbraces; Tudor arched doorway at north-west end, a further
similar door to first floor above (? stairs). The room over the north end was
probably the solar with roughly arched plaster vault. In the north wing is an
inserted C15 fireplace and a C17 fireplace in another room, beyond which is a
one-bay manor dovecote. Attractive irregular elevations to courtyard with four-bay
west range (slate roofed) containing a large C17 fireplace.

Listing NGR: SP2784017850

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17531097

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Recommended Books

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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990