Blanket Hall
BLANKET HALL, 100, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1212999
- Date first listed:
- 14-May-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Blanket Hall
- Statutory Address:
- BLANKET HALL, 100, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1212999
- Date first listed:
- 14-May-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Blanket Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- BLANKET HALL, 100, HIGH 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:
- BLANKET HALL, 100, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- West Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Witney
- National Grid Reference:
- SP3576810110
Details
WITNEY HIGH STREET
SP3510SE (East side )
9/147 No.100 (Blanket Hall)
14/05/52
GV II*
Blanket hall. Built 1721: panel with arms of Witney Company of Weavers reads
"Robert Collier Master 1721". Limestone ashlar; gabled roof; lateral stack of
stone finished in brick. Provincial Baroque style. 2 storeys; symmetrical
3-window range. Raised and segmental -headed keyed architrave to plank double
doors set in heavy wood frame with overlights. Similar architraves to 9-pane
sashes and 12-pane sash above door, all with thick glazing bars. Raised storey
band and quoin strips; ball finials with gadrooned bases to corners and
surmounting open pediment. Pediment has half-H apron blocks beneath cornice and
clock in tympanum above arms of the Witney Company of Weavers. Roof surmounted
by fine wood bell turret with cupola. Rear: 2 similar sashes and round-arched
doorway. Remodelled C18 range to rear, of coursed limestone rubble with gabled
artificial stone slate roof. Interior: C18 panelled doors. Partial inspection
only. The Witney Blanket Weavers Company was chartered in 1711: blankets were
brought here for weighing and measuring.
(Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, p.846; N. Lloyd, History of the English
House, 1931, fig.227; National Monuments Record).
Listing NGR: SP3576810110
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 397507
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Lloyd, N, History of the English House, (1931)
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 846
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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