Former Queen's Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of White Horse local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 January 1951. Hotel. 4 related planning applications.
Former Queen's Hotel
- WRENN ID
- tall-vestry-tallow
- 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
- Former Queen's Hotel, 14, Market Place, Abingdon on Thames, OX14 3HA
- OS grid reference
- SU 497 971
- Coordinates
- 51.67059, -1.28161
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The building is a former hotel, originally dating to ancient origins, with significant alterations from the 18th century. The left-hand section is three storeys and an attic, built of painted brick with a slate roof, half-hipped to the left, and includes one dormer with a casement window lacking glazing bars. The rendered parapet sits above two windows on the second floor with flush frames, flat arches, and no glazing bars. Modern canted bay windows are visible on the first and ground floors.
The right-hand section dates to the early 18th century and comprises three storeys and attics. It features a slate roof with one dormer featuring a casement lacking glazing bars, a modern parapet, and a dentil cornice. The facade is of painted brick with brick rusticated quoins. There are three windows with flush frames, double lintel sashes with glazing bars, and gauged brick arches. Modern ground floor windows and a double door are also present.
The building was formerly known as 'The Antelope Inn' and was mentioned in Pepy's Diary under June 9 1688. Previously it was known as New Inn, a guest house for visitors to the Abbey. It forms a group with Nos. 14 to 21 Market Place.
Local climate
Former Queen's 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.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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