Crown Hotel Market Place

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