The Court House and Attached Wall and Doorway Dated 1610 2 Metres to Right
THE COURT HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALL AND DOORWAY DATED 1610 2 METRES TO RIGHT, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1046193
- Date first listed:
- 08-Dec-1955
- List Entry Name:
- The Court House and Attached Wall and Doorway Dated 1610 2 Metres to Right
- Statutory Address:
- THE COURT HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALL AND DOORWAY DATED 1610 2 METRES TO RIGHT, CHURCH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1046193
- Date first listed:
- 08-Dec-1955
- List Entry Name:
- The Court House and Attached Wall and Doorway Dated 1610 2 Metres to Right
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE COURT HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALL AND DOORWAY DATED 1610 2 METRES TO RIGHT, CHURCH STREET
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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:
- THE COURT HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALL AND DOORWAY DATED 1610 2 METRES TO RIGHT, CHURCH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- Cherwell (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Bloxham
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 42979 35644
Details
BLOXHAM CHURCH STREET SP4235 (East side) 9/115 The Court House and attached 08/12/55 wall and doorway dated 1610. 2m. to right
GV II
Court House. Probably originally C14. Rebuilt c.1685 and 1689. In 1887 the loft was made into an upper room and the C14 doorway was moved from the south to the north side. Regular coursed ironstone rubble. Thatched roof. Stone stack to right. 2-unit plan. North elevation facing church: Single storey. Pointed arched doorway to right has plank door and stone steps and is flanked by two 2-light casements with wooden lintels. Left end has blocked pointed arched window with fragments of tracery and a 2-light C20 wooden mullioned and transomed window. Right end has two C20 wooden mullioned and transomed windows to main floor and a single 2-light window to basement (now museum). Rear: Single storey plus attic. Two 2-light C20 windows flank wide C20 sliding door. Three 2-light windows to attic. Blocked doorway in wall attached to right end has hood mould with square label stops and partially legible inscription noted as: GC:TW:TM Townesmen Anno l610. This doorway was to a school house demolished in 1887. Interior: basement has chamfered bressumer to fireplace. In the C19 two large coppers were installed for a soup kitchen and the basement housed the town fire engine. During the C20 the upper floor has been regularly used by the Parish Council and other orqanisations and the basement by the museum. (Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, pp.481-2; V.C.H.: Oxfordshire, Vol.IX, p.57; Huntriss, Y.S., The Town of Bloxham, 1983, p.9).
Listing NGR: SP4297935644
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 244218
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1983), 57
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 481-2
Huntriss, Y S, The Town of Bloxham, (1983), 9
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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