Ann Elizabeth Health Foods The Reindeer Inn

BANBURY PARSON'S STREET SP4540NW, SP4540NE (North side) 6/157, 7/157 No.47 (The Reindeer Inn) and 09/04/52 No.48 (Ann Elizabeth Health Foods) (Formerly listed as Nos.47 (Reindeer Hotel) and No.48) GV II*

Public house and shop once wholly comprising The Reindeer Inn. Early/mid C16 with additions of 1570, 1624 and 1637. Now No.47 to left forms the Reindeer Inn and No.48 a shop to right. No.47: originally early to mid C16 with rear additions dated 1624 and 1637 (Globe Room). No.48 of c.1570 including carriage entrance. Gates inscribed and dated: 1570 IHON KNIGHT * IHONE KNIGHT * DAVID HORN. Mixed stone and timber construction. No.47: limestone and stucco. No.48: star patterned timber framing above carriage entrance and roughcast first floor. Welsh slate roof. Brick ridge stack. 2 storeys plus attic. 6-window range. Courtyard plan formed by L-shaped ranges. Ground floor to No.47 has 6 renewed sashes and 6-panelled door. Carriage entrance off-centre to right has panelled gates with wooden pegs. C20 shop front to right. First floor No.47: 3 wooden mullioned and transomed windows with opening casements; large wooden mullioned and transomed window above carriage entrance; No.48 has 2 sashes with glazing bars and moulded wood surrounds. 5 gabled roof dormers with moulded eaves and openings casements. Rear to No.47: 2-storey and roughcast over timber frame includes C17 additions. Globe Room has a renewed wooden mullioned window and a 6-light stone mullioned window with hood mould and label stops to cellar. Rear to No.48: 3-storey range with jetty at second floor. Renewed casements within oriel windows in second floor. Double gabled dormer above carriage entrance. Interior of Globe Room: C17 panelling and interior porch. Plaster casts of the ceiling are in the Victoria and Albert Museum. Roof to No.47 reputed to have arched windbraces. (Photographs in N.M.R.; V.C.H.: Oxfordshire, Vol.X, pp.29, 32 and 33; Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, 1974, p.443; Potts, W., A History of Banbury, 1958, pp.129-131; Laithwaite, M., The Reindeer Inn and Trinder, B.S. The Globe Room in Cake and Cockhorse, Vol.2, No. 10, Nov.1964, pp.159-174).

Listing NGR: SP4549740643