Fox House Fox House Antiques
FOX HOUSE ANTIQUES, 32, OXFORD STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1203996
- Date first listed:
- 13-Feb-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Fox House Fox House Antiques
- Statutory Address:
- FOX HOUSE ANTIQUES, 32, OXFORD STREET
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- Date:
- 2001-12-04
- Reference:
- IOE01/05566/32
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1203996
- Date first listed:
- 13-Feb-1969
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 27-Jul-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Fox House Fox House Antiques
- Statutory Address 1:
- FOX HOUSE ANTIQUES, 32, OXFORD STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- FOX HOUSE, 30, OXFORD 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:
- FOX HOUSE ANTIQUES, 32, OXFORD STREET
- Statutory Address:
- FOX HOUSE, 30, OXFORD STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- West Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Woodstock
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 44598 16772
Details
WOODSTOCK OXFORD STREET SP4416NE (East side) 10/175 No.30 (Fox House) and No.32 13/02/69 (Fox House Antiques) (Formerly listed as No.30, No.32) GV II Formerly part of Marlborough Arms Hotel (q.v.), including Assembly Rooms to left; now house and shop. House to right (No.30) of c.1750; No.32 to left of c.1770. Limestone ashlar, rendered to rear; rear of No.32 is partly weatherboarded. Gabled stone slate roof, hipped to left and of concrete tiles to rear; No.32 has cupola with lead roof, which lights stairs; ridge and end stacks of stone finished in brick. Double-depth plan. Georgian style front. No.30 of 3 storeys. 2-window range has flat stone arch with wrought-iron brackets supporting flat hood over mid C19 six-panelled (2 glazed) door; raised storey bands; keyed stone lintels over mid C18 six-pane sashes with thick glazing bars, and late C18 six-pane sashes to second floor. Late C18 dentilled wood eaves cornice is continued over 2-storey, one-bay front of No.32: this has 2-storey stuccoed late C18 Venetian window set above late C18 lunette crowning late C19 wood-mullioned shop window. Extension of 1985 to rear of No.30. Interior of No.32: stone bolection-moulded fireplace of c.1720 in room to left; C18 panelled doors set in panelled reveals and mid C18 fireplaces on first floor; moulded cornices, are C18 to left but C20 elsewhere. Passage leads to rear hall, which has doorway to No.30 and very fine open-well staircase of c.1750 which has turned balusters set on closed string, bolection-moulded dado and dog-gate (the latter brought here in 1970s); top landing has bolection-moulded panelling, and stair is lit by fine lantern. Interior of No.30, built as Assembly Rooms c.1770; decorative chandalier medallions; ground floor cornice has fluting with medallions and delicate acanthus-leaf; stairs are C20; on first floor is panelled dado, moulded cornice and beams and unusual late C18 fireplaces with inner architraves of c.1840 and ducks nest grates. Thick sprung dancing floor was formerly filled with chaff.
Listing NGR: SP4459816772
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 253167
- 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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