Description

1. MARKET SQUARE
1385
(North Side)
Crown Hotel
SU 8486 1/34 16.7.49.
II* GV

2.
Formerly the Old Town Hall. 1807. Architect Samuel Wyatt. 2 storeys.
Coarse stone on projecting plinth, with dressed stone Ist floor string
supporting double angle and single intermediate Doric pilasters and
entablature with blocking course. Slate roof. 3 bay front, colour-washed,
with tall lst floor windows and segmental arched openings on ground floor,
filled in with later windows and door. Small service door to left hand.
Clock tower in centre, over-blocking course, rectangular with 4 panelled
pilasters and small cornice, and surmounted with arched and domed bell
turret, crowned with bird weather-cock. The clock is of Cl7 date and came
from the Old Market House which stood in the road where the Obelisk now is
(qv). Some original interior decoration.

The Crown Hotel, Nos 4 form an important group at the north-west
end of High Street.

Listing NGR: SU8483786614

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Marlow Town Hall at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q17541062

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Recommended Books

• 
  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
• 
  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
• 
  For the Record
• 
  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
• 
  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
• 
  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)