Banbury Museum
BANBURY MUSEUM, 8, HORSE FAIR
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1199801
- Date first listed:
- 07-Oct-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Banbury Museum
- Statutory Address:
- BANBURY MUSEUM, 8, HORSE FAIR
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1199801
- Date first listed:
- 07-Oct-1969
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 14-Feb-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Banbury Museum
- Statutory Address 1:
- BANBURY MUSEUM, 8, HORSE FAIR
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:
- BANBURY MUSEUM, 8, HORSE FAIR
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- Cherwell (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Banbury
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 45345 40377
Details
BANBURY HORSE FAIR SP4540SW (East side) 9/94 No.8 (Banbury Museum) 07/10/69 (Formerly listed as No.8, offices of Health and Water Services) GV II
Offices of Poor Law Guardians, now museum. Dated 1900. By W.E. Mills of Banbury. Ironstone ashlar. Stone slate roof. Stone stack to right end. Stone copings. Plinth. Jacobean style. 2 storeys; 3-window range. Central entrance has panelled door, rusticated stone surrounds and scrolled pediment with cartouche. Entrance is flanked by 4-light stone-mullioned and transomed windows with square heads. First floor has 3 similar windows with semi-circular ornamental gable above. Parapet. Moulded bands. Interior: open well stair. (Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, 1974, p.438).
Listing NGR: SP4535440371
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 244388
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 438
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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