Description

SK69SE BAWTRY HIGH STREET
(west side), Market
Place
10/26 Crown Hotel
27th May 1953
GV II
Hotel. Mid-late C18; altered and with extensive C19 and C20 additions.
Cement rendered, pantile roof. 2 storeys, 1:2:1:2:1:2 bays. Painted,
cemented quoins to bay 1 set back on left (probably an addition to the
original symmetrical front). Bays 4 and 7 have 2-storey round-arched
recesses, bay 4 having panelled double door and fanlight with radial glazing
bars, bay 7 having segmentally-arched carriage entrance. All ground-floor
windows have projecting sills to sashes with glazing bars in reveals.
1st floor: sill band to single-hung, 9-pane sashes; C20 shutters throughout.
Dentilled band beneath projecting parapet with the words 'CROWN HOTEL POSTING
HOUSE' in raised lettering beneath ashlar copings which rise as a gable over
original 2-bay centre. Brick ridge stack to left of bay 2 and rendered stack
to right end shared with adjacent premises( No 39 High St, q.v.). Rear: 12
cast-iron columns support a verandah lining left-side of carriageway.
Interior: staircase has nosed stone steps and wrought-iron balustrade with
crown motifs; wreathed and ramped wooden handrail. Tuffrey (p25) notes the
earliest reference to the Crown Hotel in 1772.
P. Tuffrey, Doncaster District Old Inns and Taverns, 1986 (photo of 1909).

Listing NGR: SK6511993056

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26444381

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Recommended Books

• 
  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
• 
  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
• 
  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
• 
  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
• 
  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)