BLANKET HALL

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:: BLANKET HALL, 100, HIGH STREET

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Official list entry

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

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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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

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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.