Crown Hotel is a Grade II* listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 July 1949. A Georgian Hotel. 3 related planning applications.
Crown Hotel
- WRENN ID
- stranded-moulding-claret
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Beaconsfield MP: Joy Morrissey (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 July 1949
- Type
- Hotel
- Period
- Georgian
- Address
- Crown Hotel, Market Square, Marlow, SL7 3HH
- OS grid reference
- SU 848 866
- Coordinates
- 51.57203, -0.77725
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Crown Hotel, formerly the Old Town Hall, was built in 1807 and designed by architect Samuel Wyatt. It is a two-storey building made of coarse stone on a projecting plinth, featuring dressed stone on the first-floor string that supports double angle and single intermediate Doric pilasters, along with an entablature and blocking course. The slate roof covers a three-bay front that is colour-washed, with tall windows on the first floor and segmental arched openings on the ground floor, which have been filled in with later windows and a door. There is a small service door on the left side.
In the center of the building, there is a clock tower above the blocking course. The clock tower is rectangular and has four panelled pilasters, a small cornice, and is topped with an arched and domed bell turret, which is crowned with a bird weather-cock. The clock itself dates from the 17th century and was originally from the Old Market House that once stood where the Obelisk is now located. Some original interior decoration remains.
The Crown Hotel and the adjacent Nos 4 form an important group at the north-west end of High Street.
Local climate
Crown Hotel sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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