The Grosvenor Arms, With Rear Stable Block

ST 9032/9132 8/160 and 9/160 6.1.66

HINDON HIGH STREET (west side) The Grosvenor Arms, with rear stable block

GV II

Inn. Late C18. Rendered brick with chamfered rusticated quoins, hipped tile roof, brick stacks. L-plan. Two-storey, 3-window. Six-panelled door with flat wooden hood on brackets to left of centre and C19 panelled door with transom light and pair of 12-pane sashes to right and pair of 8-pane sashes to left. First floor has 12-pane sash to centre with pair of 12-pane sashes either side. Rear has C19 canted bay to right, 2-storey wing to left with 3- light casements and hipped roof. Attached to rear is long 2-storey range of stables in dressed limestone with pantiled roof and six planked doors, fixed windows and C20 garage doors, attached dressed limestone garden wall has square gate piers with ball finials. Interior has stairs with two turned balusters per tread, open fireplace with brick segmental arch and bread ovens. Known as The Angel until mid C19 when renamed the Grosvenor Arms after Lord Grosvenor, later the Marquess of Westminster, acquired the Fonthill Abbey estate and property in Hindon between c1825 and 1840. (N. Sheard, The History of Hindon, 1979)

Listing NGR: ST9098932867