Abbey Guest House is a Grade II* listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 July 1963. A Medieval Museum, tea room. 1 related planning application.
Abbey Guest House
- WRENN ID
- waiting-casement-holly
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- South Oxfordshire
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 July 1963
- Type
- Museum, tea room
- Period
- Medieval
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
DORCHESTER HIGH STREET SU5794 5/45 (East side) 18/07/63 Abbey Guest House
GV II*
Monastic guest house, now museum and tea room. Late C15. Limestone rubble and timber framing with plaster and brick infill; old plain-tile roof with brick stacks. 3-unit plan. 2 storeys. Rubble front has 2 entrances and, to left and centre, tall leaded casements, those at ground floor with labels. Windows in right bay have C18/C19 segmental arches, but a blocked original window retains the trefoiled heads of 2 lights with recessed spandrels. The right end of the wall has the left jamb and springing stone of an arched doorway. Roof has a lateral stack, to left, and a ridge stack, to right. Ends and rear are timber framed in large panels with a full-length rear jetty on curved brackets. Rear has herringbone brick infill at ground floor, leaded casements with ogee mullions, and a blocked 4-centre arched doorway. Right gable wall has a timber-framed staircase addition. Interior: C17 oak panelling; remains of a rear gallery; clasped-purlin roof with queen strut trusses and arched windbraces. The building was converted to a school in 1652.
Listing NGR: SU5788094216
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