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Date of photo: 2016	Picture source: T C
The Crown Tavern was situated at 3 Cornmarket Street.  This grade-II listed pub closed in the 1830s and was converted to retail use. Not to be confused with the current Crown Inn at 59 Cornmarket Street.
Listed building details:
House and shop. RCHM 102. A C15 core with addition of top storey, possibly made in C17. It was refronted in C18 and altered in 1934, when the small South wing was rebuilt. The modern front consists of 4-storeyed stucco with cellars, bands at the 2nd and 3rd floors and a modillioned cornice. There is a modern shop front to the ground floor and 4 sash windows with glazing bars in each floor, the ancient structure within is timber-framed. Interior. RCHM page 169a. Includes the painted Room (on North of 2nd floor; see Oxoniensia I (1936) 144-150) which has late C16 wall paintings (between 1564 and 1581), C16 fireplace and C16 and early C17 panelling. History. William Davenant, the friend of Shakespeare and Vitner, came to live here in June 1603. The House became the Crown Inn in 1666.
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