Crown Inn and Victoria Friendly Society Premises is a Grade II listed building in the Cotswold local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 August 1983. Inn, society premises. 1 related planning application.
Crown Inn and Victoria Friendly Society Premises
- WRENN ID
- sleeping-oriel-vetch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cotswold
- Constituency
- North Cotswolds MP: Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 August 1983
- Type
- Inn, society premises
- Address
- Crown Inn and Victoria Friendly Society Premises, High Street, Blockley, GL56 9EX
- OS grid reference
- SP 162 347
- Coordinates
- 52.0113, -1.76431
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Crown Inn and Victoria Friendly Society premises date from around 1700 and are two and a half storeys high. The building is constructed from coursed, squared rubble with a chamfered eaves course. It features a slate roof with coped verges on the right, an ashlar chimney with a moulded capping on the left, and a brick chimney to the right of the centre. The rear has stone slates. There are two gabled dormers, located in the centre and on the left side. The first floor has four windows, while the ground floor has three, all of which are three-light mullioned casements with drips on the ground floor. To the right, there is a segmental keyed coachway arch that provides access to the yard, with the entrance to the inn now located within this coachway.
At the rear, there is a large taller extension on the south-west side, which includes a three-light mullioned window facing the yard. A hipped former stair turret is situated in the centre. The Victoria and Friendly Society premises were established in 1837, as noted on a tablet, and include an Assembly Room that extends beyond the Crown Inn. This large outbuilding is two storeys high, built of rubble with ashlar dressings and quoins, and features a moulded eaves course and a slate roof with coped verges. The first floor has four glazing bar sash windows, while the ground floor has two segmental archways on the left, likely used for storage and coaches. The premises are still used for Mummers plays and similar events after being sold by the Friendly Society in 1872.
Local climate
Crown Inn and Victoria Friendly Society Premises receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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