19 AND 21, UPPER CRESCENT
19 AND 21, UPPER CRESCENT
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1053438
- Date first listed:
- 07-Jul-1977
- List Entry Name:
- 19 AND 21, UPPER CRESCENT
- Statutory Address:
- 19 AND 21, UPPER CRESCENT
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1053438
- Date first listed:
- 07-Jul-1977
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 27-Mar-1990
- List Entry Name:
- 19 AND 21, UPPER CRESCENT
- Statutory Address 1:
- 19 AND 21, UPPER CRESCENT
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:
- 19 AND 21, UPPER CRESCENT
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- West Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Minster Lovell
- National Grid Reference:
- SP3119810885
Details
In the entry for
MINSTER LOVELL UPPER CRESCENT
(south side)
20/123
Charterville
Nos 19, 21 and 23
The address shall be amended to read: UPPER CRESCENT
(south side)
Charterville
Nos 19 and 21
In the first line of the description delete '3 dwellings' and insert '2
dwellings'.
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MINSTER LOVELL UPPER CRESCENT
SF3110 (South side)
Charterville
20/123
Nos.19, 21 and 23
07/07/77
(Formerly listed as No.19)
GV
II*
Chartist school and meeting room, now 3 dwellings. Circa 1847. Coursed squared
stone with stone quoins to corners; slate roofs with lead ridges and
hexagon-shaped slates, having coped stone gables. 2 storeys and attic; 3-bay
central range with single-storey, 3-bay wings to left and right. Stone porch
with chamfered rustication to centre of central range, having basket-arched
archway and C20 door to doorway. C20 cross-windows to ground and first floors of
central range. Flat stone band between ground and first floors and between first
floor and attic. Cross-gabled roof, with octagonal 2-light casement to attic.
Wings to left and right have central stone porches with basket-arched archways
and plank doors to doorways. Wood cross-windows to left and right of wings. Flat
stone band to eaves of wings, with plain stone parapets. All windows have stone
lintels with keystones. Interiors not inspected. History: Charterville was the
third of five estates established by the National Land Company. Company formed
by Feargus O'Connor in 1845 to enable people from factory towns to live on small
holdings and qualify for a vote. The Land Company ran into difficulties and was
dissolved in July 1851.
(Working-Class Housing in Oxfordshire, by Crispin Paine et.al. in "Oxoniensia"
vol 43, 1978, pp206-212; Charterville and the Chartist Land Company, by Kate
Tiller in "Oxoniensia" vol 50, 1985, pp251-266)
Listing NGR: SP3119810885
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 253681
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Oxoniensia in Oxoniensia, Vol. 43, (1978), 206-12
Oxoniensia in Oxoniensia, Vol. 50, (1985), 251-266
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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