Linden House
LINDEN HOUSE, 55, SOUTH BAR STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1200494
- Date first listed:
- 09-Apr-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Linden House
- Statutory Address:
- LINDEN HOUSE, 55, SOUTH BAR STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1200494
- Date first listed:
- 09-Apr-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 14-Feb-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Linden House
- Statutory Address 1:
- LINDEN HOUSE, 55, SOUTH BAR 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:
- LINDEN HOUSE, 55, SOUTH BAR STREET
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 45272 40377
Details
BANBURY SOUTH BAR STREET SP4540SW (West side) 9/185 No.55 (Linden House) 09/04/52 (Formerly listed as No.55) GV II
House, now offices. Early C18, later remodelled. Rear range probably C17: former houses and stabling, now offices. Ironstone ashlar. Steeply pitched stone slate roof. Brick ridge and end stacks on rendered stone bases. 2 storeys plus attic. 4-window range. Entrance off-centre to left has a Gibbs surround, 4-panelled door and overlight. 3 tripartite sashes to ground floor. First floor has 4 tripartite sashes with glazing bars. 4 attic dormers with raking roofs. 5 pilaster strips through both floors. Flat band. Moulded, dentilled stone eaves cornice. Ironstone copings. Elevation to West Bar Street, former stable block: regular coursed ironstone rubble, slate roof. 2 brick ridge stacks on stone bases. 6-panelled door with 2 glazed panels to left. Fanlight. Oriel window above. Ground floor has one, and first floor has 2 wood-mullioned and transomed windows. Several blocked windows and door openings with original wooden lintels. Interior: C18 fireplaces, panelling, and upper part of staircase. Cellar. (Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, 1974, p.441; V.C.H.: Oxfordshire, Vol.X, p.34-36).
Listing NGR: SP4526840380
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 244485
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1972), 34-36
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 441
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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