Danvers House, Dashwood House and Calthorpe House
CALTHORPE HOUSE, 9, DASHWOOD TERRACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1046966
- Date first listed:
- 09-Apr-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Danvers House, Dashwood House and Calthorpe House
- Statutory Address:
- CALTHORPE HOUSE, 9, DASHWOOD TERRACE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1046966
- Date first listed:
- 09-Apr-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Danvers House, Dashwood House and Calthorpe House
- Statutory Address 1:
- CALTHORPE HOUSE, 9, DASHWOOD TERRACE
- Statutory Address 2:
- DANVERS HOUSE, 7, DASHWOOD TERRACE
- Statutory Address 3:
- DASHWOOD HOUSE, 8, DASHWOOD TERRACE
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:
- CALTHORPE HOUSE, 9, DASHWOOD TERRACE
- Statutory Address:
- DANVERS HOUSE, 7, DASHWOOD TERRACE
- Statutory Address:
- DASHWOOD HOUSE, 8, DASHWOOD TERRACE
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:
- SP4541840240
Details
SP4540SW
9/39
09/04/52
BANBURY
DASHWODD TERRACE
No.7 (Danvers House), No.8 (Dashwood House) and No.9 (Calthorpe House)
GV
II*
Three houses, once substantial house, now divided into flats. No.9 is C16 or
earlier with later additions and alterations; Nos.7 and 8 have datestones
JL/1900 and JL/1876, respectively. Nos.7 and 8 of ashlar ironstone with brick to
sides and rear; No.9 partly of regular coursed ironstone rubble and partly
ironstone ashlar. Slate roofs. Brick ridge, lateral and end stacks. 2 storeys
plus attics throughout. 5 gable-front bays altogether. No.7: 4-window range. 2
bays. Stone porch to left has pointed arched doorway and plank door with rails.
Casement window to left, 2 sashes with glazing bars to right. First floor has 3
sashes with glazing bars and a tall fixed light. 3 half-dormer windows including
2 sashes. No.8: 2-window range. Single bay. C19 ironstone ashlar porch to right
has 4-centred arched doorway, part-glazed door and 2-light stone-mullioned
window. Embattled parapet with one surviving finial. Window to left has
intersecting glazing bars. 2 first floor windows including a pointed arched
window with diamond leaded lights and fragmentary remains of hood mould and head
stops. 2-light half-dormer window. No.9: 2 bays. Shallow, embattled 2-storey
porch has door surround bearing the arms of the Hawten family who acquired the
house between 1604 and 1614. Doorway has a 4-centred arched head and part-glazed
plank door. Hood mould with label stops. Doorway is flanked by tall sashes with
glazing bars, hood moulds and label stops. Plain door to left; upper floor of
the porch has a 6-light stone-mullioned and transomed window. Similar 3-light
window to the left and a sash with glazing bars to the right. First floor
windows have a continuous hood mould with label stops. 2 half-dormers: a 3-light
stone-mullioned window with hood mould and label stops and a sash window with
glazing bars and hood mould and label stops. Right end remodelled late C18/early
C19 has embattled porch, with Gothick glazing. 2 first-floor sashes have glazing
bars and hood moulds with label stops. Interior Calthorpe House: ground floor
room has a plaster rib vault on angel corbels. One corbel bears the arms of the
Cobb family, who owned the Calthorpe estate between 1801-1875. Reputed to have
an arched braced collar-beam truss roof in the south range of Calthorpe House.
Joseph Lumber, clothier, owned the properties in the C19. (V.C.H.: Oxfordshire,
Vol.X, pp.36,44 and 45; Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, 1974, p.442).
Listing NGR: SP4541840240
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 244330
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1972), 36 44 45
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 442
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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