The Crown Inn

SO 8600-8700 MINCHINHAMPTON HIGH STREET, Minchinhampton Town (west side)

19/265 The Crown Inn (previously listed as Crown Hotel) 28.6.60

GV II

Coaching inn. Late C17; front range added c1715. Coursed rubble limestone artificial stone rebuilt chimneys; stone slate roof. Two-storey with attic; rear return wing at north end and long rear stable and coach house wing. Front: 9-window original fenestration mostly survives on upper floor with 18-pane sashes having thick glazing bars in openings with moulded timber architraves and bull-nosed sills. Two at right end replaced by later 12-pane sashes. Ground floor has more alterations including 2 canted bay windows, wide central doorway with C20 door screen and altered front to right end, formerly a shop. Projecting sprocketed eaves to roof hipped at north end; three gabled dormers, 2 rebuilt ridge-mounted chimneys. North end: Cl9 return wing with 4-pane sashes and chimney gable. Rear projecting stair turret with hipped roof. Long coach house and stable range with higher south-facing gabled part. Interior: mostly altered but early C18 dog-leg staircase retained. Rear range recorded in Kip's 1712 engraving of Minchinhampton, front range probably built soon after. Recorded as inn since 1718. (Sir R. Atkyns, The Ancient and Present State in Gloucestershire, 1712; N.M. Herbert, 'Minchinhampton' in V.C.H. Glos. xi, 1976, pp 184-207; and D. Verey, Gloucestershire: The Cotswolds, 1979)

Listing NGR: SO8721500752