Number 2 and Attached Wall
NUMBER 2 AND ATTACHED WALL, 2, PRIORY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1048524
- Date first listed:
- 03-Dec-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Number 2 and Attached Wall
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBER 2 AND ATTACHED WALL, 2, PRIORY ROAD
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1048524
- Date first listed:
- 03-Dec-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Number 2 and Attached Wall
- Statutory Address 1:
- NUMBER 2 AND ATTACHED WALL, 2, PRIORY ROAD
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:
- NUMBER 2 AND ATTACHED WALL, 2, PRIORY ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- Vale of White Horse (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Wantage
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 39639 87903
Details
WANTAGE PRIORY ROAD SU3987NE (West side) 9/156 No.2 and attached wall 03/12/69
GV II
House. Mid C18, remodelled and extended to rear early/mid C19. Flemish bond brick, mid C18 random bond brick to left side wall and flared headers to right side wall; old tile roof; brick stacks. Double-depth plan. 2 storeys and attic; 3-window range. Early C19 reeded architrave to door of 3 panels with top panel (glazed); porch of c.1965. Soldier arches and coved C18 cornice over mid C19 three-light transomed windows with cusped heads; mid C18 gabled dormer with 2-light leaded casement. Roof gabled to left, half-hipped to right; gable end left stack, ridge stack. Early C19 rear has gauged brick cambered arches over horned sashes flanking French window with bordered lights and shutters and glazed door with overlight; wrought iron verandah and balcony to first-floor windows. Interior: C18 six-panelled doors. Hall has mid C18 Doric entablatures to broken pediments over doors and early C19 straight-run stairs with wreathed handrail. Early C19 fireplaces and cornices, blocked doorway to centre of right side wall has mid C18 china closet in adjoining wall. Similar pedimented doorway and mid C18 fireplace with shouldered architrave to first floor. Winder stairs to attic which has mid C18 round-headed panelled cupboard door and common-rafter roof. Subsidiary features: Mid C18 wall, attached to rear right and flanking lane, is of random bond brick, divided by pilaster buttresses into 10 panels each with stepped plinth and dogtooth cornice beneath tiled coping.
Listing NGR: SU3963987903
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 251255
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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