Wine Vaults Public House
5, PARSONS STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1046899
- Date first listed:
- 07-Oct-1967
- Statutory Address:
- 5, PARSONS STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1046899
- Date first listed:
- 07-Oct-1967
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 14-Feb-1986
- Statutory Address 1:
- 5, PARSONS STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- WINE VAULTS PUBLIC HOUSE, 6, PARSONS STREET
Location
- Statutory Address:
- 5, PARSONS STREET
- Statutory Address:
- WINE VAULTS PUBLIC HOUSE, 6, PARSONS STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- Cherwell (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Banbury
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 45555 40629
Details
SP4540NE BANBURY PARSON'S STREET
(South side)
1046/7/161
Nos 5 and 6 Wine Vaults
07.10.1967 Public House
GV II
House and Public House. C18 with later additions. House to left, public house with dwelling to right. One build. Squared coursed ironstone. Steeply pitched slate roof. Rendered base of stack to left end. 2 storeys plus attic. 5-window range. No 5: entrance to left has rusticated stone surround, 6-panelled door with decorative overlight and boot-scraper recess to right. Tripartite sash to left has rusticated stone surround. 1st floor has 3 sashes with glazing bars and rusticated stone surrounds. Interior not inspected. No 6: ground floor shop front to public house has 2 sash windows with glazing bars and a wide 6-panelled door. 1st floor has 2 sashes with rusticated stone surrounds. Bands to 1st floor and below parapet. 5-gabled attic dormers. Interior to No 6 (Wine Vaults Public House): narrow linear plan, with street entrance giving access to internal lobby with vertically boarded, half-glazed doors, glazed overlights and panelled partitions. Public House interior with bar counters set parallel to west side wall, serving a main bar, 2 smaller snug bars and a rear smoke room all linked by a bar passage. Main bar and 2 snug bars have fixed bench seating set against dividing partitions. Passage east side wall has bench seating set against vertical boarded front. Back bar with plain boarding and fixed shelving. South snug entered through half-glazed door. Snug bar with mirror-backed shelving. Angled partition screen creates servery to rear smoke room which has fixed bench seating. A distinctive public house interior, with modest but significant fittings and furnishings demonstrating the requirement for separate bar functions on a restricted site, now an increasingly rare survival.
Listing NGR: SP4555540629
Legacy
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- Legacy System number:
- 244461
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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