Roebuck Inn

DRAYTON STRATFORD R0A0 SP 4241 (North side) 11/267 Roebuck Inn 08/12/55 GV II Inn. Late C17 with C20 additions and alterations. 2 builds. Squared coursed ironstone. Steeply pitched C20-tile roofs. Brick ridge and end stacks. Left part, One-unit plan. 2 stormy plus attic. C20 windows and skylight. Single storey additions. Coped stone gable on left. Right part. 2-unit plan. 2 storeys plus attic. 2-window range. Approximately central entrance has square headed doorway with moulded stone architraves and a cornice. Egg and dart decoration. Original ledged and battened wood door with strap hinges. C20 hood. Entrance is flanked by 2-light simple splay stone-mullioned windows with partly renewed hood moulds and label stops. Small opening casement within mullion on left. First floor has 2 similar windows partly above eaves. C20 skylight. Coped stone gablet with moulded kneelers on right. Right gable has C20 windows in original openings, which have stone flat arches. Interior rids stop-chamfered beams, stone angle fireplace, circular stairwell leading to cellar and another to first floor. (Photographs in N.M.R.; Wood-Jones, R.B.: Traditional Domestic architecture in the Banbury Region, 1963, p270; VCH: Oxfordshire, Vol IX, p104)

Listing NGR: SP4287541940