The Crown Inn

The Crown Inn is a coaching inn located on High Street in Minchinhampton, dating from the late 17th century, with a front range added around 1715. The building is constructed of coursed rubble limestone and artificial stone, featuring rebuilt chimneys and a stone slate roof. It is two stories high with an attic, a rear return wing at the north end, and a long rear stable and coach house wing.

The front of the inn has nine windows, mostly original, on the upper floor, with 18-pane sash windows that have thick glazing bars set in openings with moulded timber architraves and bull-nosed sills. Two of the windows at the right end have been replaced with later 12-pane sashes. The ground floor shows more alterations, including two canted bay windows, a wide central doorway with a 20th-century door screen, and an altered front at the right end, which was formerly a shop. The roof features projecting sprocketed eaves, hipped at the north end, three gabled dormers, and two rebuilt ridge-mounted chimneys. The north end includes a 19th-century return wing with 4-pane sashes and a chimney gable. There is also a rear projecting stair turret with a hipped roof and a long coach house and stable range with a higher south-facing gabled section.

Inside, the inn has been mostly altered, but it retains an early 18th-century dog-leg staircase. The rear range is depicted in Kip's 1712 engraving of Minchinhampton, and the front range was likely built soon after. The inn has been recorded as an inn since 1718.