Plough Hotel

CLANFIELD POUND LANE SP2802-2902 (North side) 7/39 Plough Hotel (Formerly listed as Plough 12.9.55 Inn) GV II

House, now hotel. Mid- to late C17 with later additions and alterations. Uncoursed limestone rubble; stone slate roof with coped verges. 2 storeys and attic. 3 bays; chamfered mullion windows with dripstones, of 4 lights except for 2-light windows to centre on first floor and to 3 prominent gabled full dormers. Central entrance; 4-centred chamfered doorway with narrow flanking windows linked by continuous dripstone; C20 plank door. Integral end stacks with dripstones and tops rebuilt in C20 red brick. Outline of former low gabled range visible to right gable end. Gabled full dormer to centre at rear. Former stables and service range attached to left gable end. One storey and attic. Ground floor has, from left to right, a C20 casement, plank door, two C20 casements in position of infilled opening, a 4-light chamfered mullion window with dripstone and a C20 plank door. 2 hip-roofed eaves dormers to right with 2 stone ridge stacks to left. Interior. Ground floor of main range (formerly 3 rooms, now one) has chamfered ceiling beans with variety of stops. Partly infilled open fireplace to right has chamfered jambs and chamfered 4-centred wooden lintel. Fireplace in first-floor left room also has chamfered wooden lintel. C20 flat-roofed additions to rear are not of special architectural interest. (Buildings of England: Oxfordshire: p546) [2335]

Listing NGR: SP2846102066