The Crown and Thistle Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of White Horse local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 January 1951. A C17-C18 Hotel. 2 related planning applications.
The Crown and Thistle Hotel
- WRENN ID
- little-vestry-river
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Vale of White Horse
- Constituency
- Oxford West and Abingdon MP: Layla Moran (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 January 1951
- Type
- Hotel
- Address
- The Crown and Thistle Hotel, Bridge Street, Abingdon on Thames, OX14 3HS
- OS grid reference
- SU 498 969
- Coordinates
- 51.66953, -1.28032
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Crown and Thistle Hotel is a building dating from around 1605, with an 18th-century front elevation that follows the curve of the road. The left section of the hotel is rendered and consists of three storeys, which is taller than the right section. It features a parapet and a moulded modillion cornice. The front has a window arrangement of two, one, and two flush frames, with double hung sashes that include glazing bars. There is a frieze and cornice above the first-floor windows. The ground floor is cut back and roughly rendered, with a rendered plinth. Four brick piers support the upper floors.
The right section is constructed of brick and has a parapet with a dentil cornice. It also has three storeys and a band between the storeys, with three windows on the front elevation that curve to fit the site, featuring double hung sashes with glazing bars, some of which have been replaced. The ground floor is roughly rendered, with a rendered plinth.
The Crown and Thistle Hotel, along with Roysse's Court and Nos. 26 to 32 (even), forms a cohesive group.
Local climate
The Crown and Thistle Hotel sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2015
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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