DANVERS HOUSE, DASHWOOD HOUSE AND CALTHORPE HOUSE

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:: CALTHORPE HOUSE, 9, DASHWOOD TERRACE

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Official list entry

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

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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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

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Legacy System number:: 244330
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 442
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1972), 36 44 45

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.