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The Boars Head was situated at 2 Queens Lane. This grade-II listed pub was present by 1823 when the publican was Thomas Sammons and closed in 1896.

Source: Norman Lowndes

Listed building details:

HIGH STREET (North Side) Nos 39 to 41 (consec). With No 2 QUEEN'S LANE. Corner site. 1 building. RCHM 60. C17-C18 3-storeyed stuccoed timber-framing with cellars. It was refaced early in C18 and has a modillioned wood eaves cornice and a Welsh slate roof. The 1st floor has 7 C18-style sash windows in moulded wood frames and cornices. The 2nd floor has similar windows in plain moulded frames. Between Nos 40 and 41 is a fluted rainwater head and pipe. The West elevation of the range extending to the North along Queen's Lane is similar in style but has 3-light sash and coupled sash windows; it is thought to have been built in early C17. Interior. RCHM page 163a. Includes, in No 41, some reset early C16 linen-fold panelling. History. See Oxford History Society. LXVI (1914), 313. It was completely rebuilt behind the facade circa 1968 and given modern C18 style shop windows with bowed fronts.

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