Building record 130/0/85 - Nos.20 & 22 Market Place (Crown Hotel)

An early-mid C18 3 storeyed front on a C16-17 core. The front is modernised but retains the original sash windows and is rendered in modern roughcast; there is, on the north side, a wing projecting to the east. Moulded wood cornice. Small parapet. Painted pilaster strips. Band at 1st floor. In the centre on the 1st floor over a carriageway, is a Venetian window with moulded pilasters, on each side on which are 2 sash windows in moulded frames. At the back a wing on the north west has some origin . In a 3-sided bay and some renewed casement windows. Interior: the ground floor room in the north west wing contains a C16-17 moulded 4-centre headed stone fireplace with moulded jambs which may well belong to the original house.

{3} The Crown. Coaching inn which is older than the frontage suggests. Shown on map of 1760.
The Excise Office shown within the Crown on map of 1760.

{4}Four undated photos;

<1> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 1/18 (Digital archive). SNN102353.

<2> List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest ("Greenback"), H17 (unchecked) (Catalogue). SNN45262.

<3> Ballinger J., 1999, Northamptonshire Extensive Urban Survey: Industrial Period, (unchecked) (Digital archive). SNN4.

<4> Photographs of buildings in Brackley (Photographs). SNN112141.

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Oct 14 2020 2:22PM