NHER 40389 (Building record) - Crown Hotel, High Street

August 1983. Listed, Grade II.
Listing Description excerpt:
"Hotel. Early 19th century. Brick with pantiled roof. Three storeys in five bays on rendered plinth. Doorcase to left with timber architrave and armorial keystone. Four sashes to right with glazing bars under gauged skewback arches with segmental tops. Window surrounds and keystones rendered. Five identical windows to first and three to second floors with storeys separated by rendered string course. Rendered quoins close facade at right and left. Overhanging timber cornice. Gabled roof hipped at east with internal end stacks.
Interior with dining room on first floor timber framed with studs and arched braces. Four ceiling beams."
Information from (S1).
Please consult the National Heritage List for England (S1) for the current listing details.
Amended by P. Beers (HES), 20 June 2020.

April 2004.
Latter [part of Listing Description] must surely indicate a much earlier date than 19th century; the façade is certainly of the latter date. A plaque on the exterior referring to the inn’s importance in horse trading days gives its origin as around 1760; but this timber framing, unless it is fake, must surely indicate a 17th-century date at least.
E. Rose (NLA) 30 April 2004. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 23 May 2023.

A mid-19th-century coach arch to the east of the hotel and early 19th-century stables to the rear were also listed Grade II in 1983. These are now recorded separately as NHERs 67101 and 67102 respectively.
P. Watkins (HES), 23 May 2023.