1-47 AND 49-64, PARK TOWN
1-47 AND 49-64, PARK TOWN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1047179
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jan-1968
- List Entry Name:
- 1-47 AND 49-64, PARK TOWN
- Statutory Address:
- 1-47 AND 49-64, PARK TOWN
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1047179
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jan-1968
- List Entry Name:
- 1-47 AND 49-64, PARK TOWN
- Statutory Address 1:
- 1-47 AND 49-64, PARK TOWN
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:
- 1-47 AND 49-64, PARK TOWN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- Oxford (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 51384 07825
Details
SP 5107 NW 1/32
1485
PARK TOWN
(North Side), Nos 1 to 61 (odd)
(South Side) Nos 2 to 46 and 50 to 64 (even)
29.1.68.
II GV
Consists of four groups of houses laid out in 1853 by Samuel Lipscombe Seckham,
architect.
(1) On the West of the Crescent Nos 4 to 14 alternate on the South and Nos
1 to 9 alternate on the North. These are detached, 3-storeyed houses of
the villa type with Welsh slate roofs and sash windows.
(2) The Crescent. Nos 11-31 alternate on the North and Nos 16-34 alternate
on the South. 3-storeyed stuccoed, in two curved rows of houses of the "terrace"
type with an ornamental shrubbery in the centre. The ground floors are rusticated
and there are basements and good iron railings. Above is a moulded cornice
and a small balustraded parapet. In each floor are two sash windows with
cills supported on consoles, those in the 2nd floor being of simpler design.
In the ground floor each has a 3-light sash window and a recessed doorway
up a flight of steps.
(3) On the East of the Crescent. Nos 33-45 alternate on the North and Nos
36-44 alternate on the south. These are similar to (1).
(4) The Terrace. At the East end of the group. Nos 47-61 alternate to
North of central archway and Nos 50-64 alternate to South of same. 3-storeyed
yellow brick with basements and a stuccoed, rusticated ground floor, the
whole terrace being raised some 4 ft above the roadway. Each house has two
1st-floor sash windows and on the ground floor is one sash window and a recessed
doorway up a flight of steps. The central stuccoed Archway is dated 1855.
All the listed buildings in Park Town form a group, with Nos 68 and 70 Banbury
Road.
Listing NGR: SP5138407825
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 245731
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 34 Oxfordshire
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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