Blue Boar Hotel

The Blue Boar Hotel is a house, later adapted as an inn, dating from circa 1740. It is located on the west side of Newbury Street, Wantage. The main block has a rendered ground floor and a first floor constructed of Flemish bond brickwork with flared brick headers. It has an old tile roof and a red brick stack to the left. The building is arranged in a 'T' shape with two storeys and an attic, featuring a four-window front. A 20th-century door is set within a moulded architrave, topped by carved brackets supporting a flat hood. Mid-19th century six-pane sash windows are present throughout, with gauged brick flat arches and keystones above the first-floor windows. The eaves are dentilated. A roof dormer contains an early 19th-century sash window. The roof is Mansard style, with a ridge stack to the left and a rear internal stack. The rear of the building also features sash windows in similar surrounds. A mid-18th century wing adjoins the right side, constructed of flared brick with red brick quoins and dressings; it features keyed stone lintels over 18th-century first-floor sashes, a parapet, and a hipped old tile roof with a brick lateral stack. The first and second floors of the main block were not inspected as part of the listing process.