Crown Hotel | |
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Location | 24–26 High Street, Nantwich, Cheshire, England |
Coordinates | 53°04′03″N 2°31′22″W / 53.0674°N 2.5227°W |
Built | c. 1583 |
Listed Building – Grade I | |
Designated | 19 April 1948 |
Reference no. | 56617 |
The Crown Hotel, also known as the Crown Inn, is a timber-framed, black-and-white hotel and public house located at 24 High Street in the town of Nantwich in Cheshire, England. The present building dates from shortly after 1583. One of three buildings in Nantwich to be listed at grade I, the listing describes the Crown Hotel as "an important late C16 building."[1]
The existing hotel was built on the site of an earlier inn of the same name, destroyed in the Great Fire of Nantwich of 1583. This appears to have been constructed on an earlier industrial site, including a medieval tannery and an 11–12th century salt working. The area has also been speculated to have been the location of Nantwich Castle.