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Five Arrows Hotel

A Grade II Listed Building in Waddesdon, Buckinghamshire

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Latitude: 51.8454 / 51°50'43"N

Longitude: -0.9253 / 0°55'30"W

OS Eastings: 474132

OS Northings: 216861

OS Grid: SP741168

Mapcode National: GBR C12.6WS

Mapcode Global: VHDTW.XW65

Plus Code: 9C3XR3WF+5V

Entry Name: Five Arrows Hotel

Listing Date: 29 January 1985

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1117801

English Heritage Legacy ID: 42266

Also known as: The Five Arrows Hotel

ID on this website: 101117801

Location: Waddesdon, Buckinghamshire, HP18

County: Buckinghamshire

Civil Parish: Waddesdon

Built-Up Area: Waddesdon

Traditional County: Buckinghamshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Buckinghamshire

Church of England Parish: Waddesdon with Over Winchendon and Fleet Marston

Church of England Diocese: Oxford

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Description


SP 71 NW WADDESDON HIGH STREET
(south side)

4/120 Five Arrows Hotel

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GV II


Hotel. Dated 1887. By W. Taylor and Son of Bierton for Ferdinand
de Rothschild. Rubble stone ground floor, ornamental half-timbering
and pebble-dash above, some tile-hanging. Tiled roofs, moulded
bargeboards, rows of variously patterned circular brick chimney shafts
with cogged caps. Highly picturesque. 2 storeys and attic. Front to
road has 2-storey gabled projections flanking porch and first floor
verandah. Projections have stone mullion and transom windows with
arched top lights to ground floor, wooden oriel windows to first floor,
and overhanging gables, the right with inn sign, the left having a
cast iron weathervane with 5 crossed arrows and flag initialled F.R. Porch
and verandah are each divided into 3 narrow bays by tapering wooden shafts,
and have wooden balustrades and ornamental fringes with pendants.
Scrolled wrought iron ornament over central ground floor opening.
Double doors and wooden casements with central arched lights behind.
2 elaborate wrought iron brackets for inn signs. Right side is more
irregular and has projection with similar first floor verandah to
left, and octagonal corner turret with splayed conical roof to right. To
left of street front is a pair of wooden gates with balustraded
frieze, linking hotel with former stable block, now part garages. This
building is of red brick with 3 semi-dormers in half-timbered gables
to front, and lower wing at right angles to rear.


Listing NGR: SP7413216861

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