1-47 AND 49-64, PARK TOWN

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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

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:: 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

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Legacy System number:: 245731
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 34 Oxfordshire

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