Chinner House
CHINNER HOUSE, SILVER STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1041197
- Date first listed:
- 04-Feb-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Chinner House
- Statutory Address:
- CHINNER HOUSE, SILVER STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1041197
- Date first listed:
- 04-Feb-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Chinner House
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHINNER HOUSE, SILVER STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHINNER HOUSE, SILVER STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- West Northamptonshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Chacombe
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 49223 43935
Details
CHACOMBE SILVER STREET SP4943 (East side) 10/76 Chinner House 04/02/69
- II
House. Early C16, enlarged C17. Datestone 1657, WL?MC above front doorway. Coursed limestone and ironstone rubble, thatched roof. Brick stacks. Two adjoining blocks. To right, former hall house, c.1500, one storey and attic, 3 bays. To left, C17 extension, 2 storeys and attic, 3 bays. Doorway in left bay of right block has C17 moulded wood frame, 2-panel door and C20 wooden hood. C20 bay window to right and two C20 casement windows with wood lintels; window to left of doorway has 2 lights with wood lintel and wood mullion. C17 five-light window in left bay with wood lintel and mouled wood mullions. Window in left bay on first floor is C20; central window Cl7, of 3 lights with wood mullions. To right, small 2-light window with wood mullion. Rear windows are C20 except C17 first-floor window of 3 lights with wood mullions in right bay. Similar 4-light window on left side of ground floor. Left block has coped gable ends with kneelers and flanking brick stacks. Interior: Two pairs of crucks exposed in early C19 section which are noted as "The only use of the orthodox cruck form recorded in the region" (Wood-Jones). Collar roof with arch braces. C17 section has corner fireplace with original bressumer on ground floor. Originally a single storey 3-bay hall house, the old hall was turned into kitchen and service rooms and floor inserted to provide bedrooms over in C17 when new parlour wing built to left. (Wood-Jones, R.B., Traditional Domestic Architecture in the Banbury Region, Manchester 1963, pp.37-41. Plan and Section fig.7.).
Listing NGR: SP4922343935
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 234347
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Wood-Jones, R B, Traditional Domestic Architecture in the Banbury Region, (1963), 37-41
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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