Post Office Vaults
POST OFFICE VAULTS, MARKET PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1048544
- Date first listed:
- 22-Apr-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Post Office Vaults
- Statutory Address:
- POST OFFICE VAULTS, MARKET PLACE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1048544
- Date first listed:
- 22-Apr-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Post Office Vaults
- Statutory Address 1:
- POST OFFICE VAULTS, MARKET PLACE
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:
- POST OFFICE VAULTS, MARKET PLACE
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:
- SU3988887889
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 11/09/2012
SU3987NE
9/104
22/04/50
WANTAGE
MARKET PLACE
(East side)
Post Office Vaults
(Formerly listed as No.50 (Post Office Vaults Public House) and No.51)
GV
II
Inn, now public house and shop. c,1730, refronted c.1760. Flemish bond brick;
old tile roof; brick stack. Encloses small yard, now blocked off. 3 storeys;
4-window range. Late C19 ground-floor front to No.50, flat brick arches over
blocked cellar windows to right; Venetian window with Doric columns and early
C18 sashes above, and keyed gauged brick semi-circular arches over early C18
sashes to left. Second floor has gauged brick flat arches to left and soldier
arches to right over sashes. Parapet. Hipped and half-hipped roof; ridge stacks.
Right side wall has similar semi-circular arch over sash. Left side wall of
2-window range has semi-circular arch with impost blocks to mid C19 door, early
C19 and mid C19 border sashes, early C18 sash to top left. No.51, to right, is
early C18 similar 1 x 1 block with semi-circular arches over similar first-floor
sashes in yellow brick jambs. Rear wall has corbelled out lateral stack and mid
C19 stuccoed porch. Interior: C18 cornices and early C18 two-panelled doors.
Early C18 six-panelled door from enclosed internal yard to rear right room of
No.50, which has panelled dado and panelling of c.1730, probably reset, in
partition dividing No.51 to right. Early C18 quarter-turn staircase to right of
No.50 has turned vase balusters on open string and panelled dado. First-floor
room to left has round-headed doorways arid cupboards with panelled reveals;
similar round-headed doorway to right room of No.50 with 3-panelled door. Early
C18 winder stairs to second floor.
Listing NGR: SU3988887889
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 251200
- 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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