Oxfordshire County Council Social Services
OXFORDSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL SOCIAL SERVICES, 40, SOUTH BAR STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1046912
- Date first listed:
- 09-Apr-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Oxfordshire County Council Social Services
- Statutory Address:
- OXFORDSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL SOCIAL SERVICES, 40, SOUTH BAR STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1046912
- Date first listed:
- 09-Apr-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 14-Feb-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Oxfordshire County Council Social Services
- Statutory Address 1:
- OXFORDSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL SOCIAL SERVICES, 40, SOUTH BAR 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:
- OXFORDSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL SOCIAL SERVICES, 40, SOUTH BAR 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 45284 40192
Details
BANBURY SOUTH BAR STREET SP4540SW (West side) 9/195 No.40 (Oxfordshire County 09/04/52 Council Social Services) (Formerly listed as No.40) GV II*
House, now offices. Early C18, remodelled 1784. Ironstone ashlar. Steeply pitched stone slate roof. Brick end and ridge stacks. 2 storeys plus attic; 8-window range. Ground floor has off-centre entrance to left with vermiculated, rusticated surround and head keystone. 6-panelled door with fanlight. 3 sashes to left and 3 sashes to right have glazing bars (3-pane width). Tripartite sash window to far right has arched head and is in position of former carriageway entrance. 8 sashes to first floor include sash with shouldered stone architrave and cornice (all 3-pane width). To far right a Venetian window with intersecting glazing bars. Moulded and chamfered eaves cornice below rendered parapet. 4 gabled roof dormers. Rainwater head dated 1784. Interior: C18/C19 open well staircase; carved wood Adam style fireplaces, one with overmantle; plaster ceilings in ground floor and first floor room. Panelled doors, dados, cornices, window shutters. (Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, 1974, p.441; Potts, W., Banbury through one hundred years, 1942, p.9; V.C.H.: Oxfordshire, Vol.X, p.36).
Listing NGR: SP4528440192
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 244495
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1972), 36
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 441
Potts, W, Banbury Through One Hundred Years, (1942), 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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