The Harcourt Arms Inn

NUNEHAM COURTENAY A423 SU5599 (West side) 9/65 The Harcourt Arms Inn 18/07/63 (Formerly listed as Harcourt Arms including stable block)

GV II

Inn. Mid C18, altered and extended mid C19. Brick in Flemish bond with some flared headers; old plain-tile roof with brick stacks. H-plan. 2 storeys plus attic. Front in chequer brick with stepped plinth, storey band and dentil eaves course, has projecting wings and a 4-window central range with 2 leaded cross windows at ground floor and 2-light casements at first floor. Wings have similar windows set towards their inner corners, blind at first floor, and their inward-facing return walls also have a first floor-casement. All have segmental arches. The left bay of the main range has an entrance with architrave, flat canopy on shaped brackets, and rectangular overlight, and the right inner angle has a large glazed wooden porch with Doric columns. Roofs are hipped with 2 hipped roof dormers in the central range. 3-window right return wall has been extended by one bay and has some mid C19 rubbed-brick flat arches. It retains a cross window to extreme left. Left return wall also has some rubbed-brick flat arches. The building forms the northern termination to the village street, balancing the former smithy (Brewers of Nuneham Ltd., q.v.). Part of the estate village built c.1760 for the 1st Earl Harcourt. (M. Batey "Nuneham Courtenay, an Oxfordshire C18 deserted village", Oxoniensia Vol. ST, 1968, p.108).

Listing NGR: SU5519499343