2, GROVE STREET
2, GROVE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1048535
- Date first listed:
- 22-Apr-1950
- List Entry Name:
- 2, GROVE STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 2, GROVE STREET
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- Reference:
- IOE01/04033/14
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1048535
- Date first listed:
- 22-Apr-1950
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 06-Dec-1985
- List Entry Name:
- 2, GROVE STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 2, GROVE STREET
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:
- 2, GROVE STREET
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 39826 87952
Details
WANTAGE GROVE STREET SU3987NE (East side) 9/81 No.2 22/04/50 (Formerly listed as Falcon House)
GV II
Town house, now restaurant and flat. Early C17. Irregular, timber framing much restored at gabled front, with C18 brick to right side wall; rendering to left side wall; rear wall rebuilt in late C19/early C20 brick; C20 tile roof; brick stacks. 3-unit plan, probably with lobby entry originally. 2 storeys; 4-window range to side walls. Right side wall has C20 door and four C17 three-light wood-mullioned splayed casements, (2 blocked), and C20 casements. Left side wall has C18 three-light leaded casements on first floor. Gabled front to street largely rebuilt in C20; C17 brackets to soffit-moulded jetty; decorative bargeboard with pendant. Gabled roof; ridge and rear gable end stacks. Interior: Ground floor has chamfered and stopped beams, open fireplaces with original chamfered bressumer to front of chalk chimney stack. First floor has C17 plank doors with strap hinges, chamfered beams with original joists exposed to rear; winder stairs to left side of stack; timber-framed partition wall to rear of room behind stack. 4-bay roof with windbraces is obscured at front, and 2 bays with partial survival to rear.
Listing NGR: SU3982687952
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 251176
- 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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