Former Marlborough Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 February 1970. A C17 Hotel. 4 related planning applications.
Former Marlborough Hotel
- WRENN ID
- odd-forge-stoat
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Witney MP: Charlie Maynard (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 February 1970
- Type
- Hotel
- Address
- Former Marlborough Hotel, 28, Market Square, Witney, OX28 6BH
- OS grid reference
- SP 355 096
- Coordinates
- 51.7842, -1.48579
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Former Marlborough Hotel is a hotel dating from around 1800, although it has earlier origins. It is constructed of coursed limestone rubble with a rendered front and features a gabled Welsh slate roof, along with brick end stacks and a 17th-century stack with stone and brief flues at the rear. The building has an L-plan with a rear left range and stands three storeys tall with a five-window range.
The entrance includes a 20th-century door with an overlight and a bracketed cornice. To the left, there is a canted bay window with a tripartite sash, while to the right, a one-storey projection of squared stone features tripartite sashes flanking a six-pane sash and a carriage entry. The first floor has eight-pane sashes and the second floor has six-pane sashes, all set in moulded stone architraves. Above the door, there is a relief of the Marlborough Coat-of-arms.
At the rear, there is an early 18th-century wing made of coursed limestone rubble, topped with a gabled stone slate roof and a brick ridge stack. This wing has two storeys and an attic, with a four-window range that includes a late 18th-century tripartite sash and six-pane sashes, as well as four hipped roof dormers with 20th-century casements. Further back, there is an L-shaped block from the 18th century, built with similar materials and featuring concrete tiles on the rear.
Inside, there is a 16th-century moulded partition beam to the right of the door and early 19th-century quarter-turn stairs at the rear. The rear wing has stop-chamfered beams.
Local climate
Former Marlborough Hotel receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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 — 1 transaction since 2015
- 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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