85, 86 and 87, High Street
85, 86 and 87, High Street, Banbury, OX16 5JE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1046969
- Date first listed:
- 09-Apr-1952
- List Entry Name:
- 85, 86 and 87, High Street
- Statutory Address:
- 85, 86 and 87, High Street, Banbury, OX16 5JE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1046969
- Date first listed:
- 09-Apr-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 14-Feb-1986
- List Entry Name:
- 85, 86 and 87, High Street
- Statutory Address 1:
- 85, 86 and 87, High Street, Banbury, OX16 5JE
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:
- 85, 86 and 87, High Street, Banbury, OX16 5JE
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 45662 40598
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 30 March 2026 to amend the name and address and reformat the text to current standards
SP4540NE
7/48
BANBURY
HIGH STREET (north side)
Nos.85, 86 and 87
(Formerly listed as Nos.85 (Lunn Poly), No.86 (Browns) and No.87 (Clays Butchers), previously listed as No.85, No.86 and No.87)
09/04/52
GV
II*
House, now shops. Dated 1650. Built for Edward Vivers, Mercer. Restored 1847. Brick, ironstone and stucco, Welsh slate roof, brick ridge stack. Two storeys plus attic; three window range. Frontage to High Street has three C20 shop fronts on ground floor. Three bow windows to first floor have ovolo moulded wood mullions, with timber framing between. Three gable front full dormers have three-light windows. Jettied attic storey has carved wooden frieze with pendants, some renewed, and ornamental bargeboards with finials. Roughcast with pargetting in heartshapes and fleurs-de-lys. Left end: brick ground floor to C20 shop front. First floor has three classical style pedimented wooden windows on brackets. Single gabled dormer with casement to left. Sundial on front.
Interior: ground floor has stop-chamfered moulded beams. First floor has two C17 stone fireplaces, one with moulded jambs, and flanking pilasters. Renewed straight flight stair. Butt-purlin roof. Photograph in N.M.R.
(Potts, W., A History of Banbury, 1958, p.205; Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, 1974, p.441; V.C.H.: Oxfordshire, Vol.X, p.32).
Listing NGR: SP4566240598
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 244339
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1972), 32
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 441
Potts, W, A History of Banbury, (1958), 205
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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