Post Office
2, MARKET SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1213352
- Date first listed:
- 14-May-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Post Office
- Statutory Address:
- 2, MARKET SQUARE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1213352
- Date first listed:
- 14-May-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 03-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Post Office
- Statutory Address 1:
- 2, MARKET SQUARE
- Statutory Address 2:
- POST OFFICE, 4, MARKET SQUARE
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:
- 2, MARKET SQUARE
- Statutory Address:
- POST OFFICE, 4, MARKET SQUARE
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:
- SP3556809747
Details
SP3509N
10/187
14/05/52
WITNEY
MARKET SQUARE
(West side)
Nos.2 and 4 (Post Office)
(Formerly listed as No. 4)
GV
II
House, now Post Office. c,1750, with C20 internal alterations. Limestone ashlar;
gabled stone-coped stone slate roof with concrete tiles and artificial stone
slates to rear; moulded stone ashlar rear lateral stacks. Double-depth plan. Mid
Georgian style. 2 storeys; symmetrical 5-window range. Centre bays are
pedimented, with lunette in tympanum. Mid C19 plate-glass sashes to all windows.
Venwtian window above Venetian doorway with C20 door. Raised beaded architraves
with triple keyblocks to windows. Dentilled cornice beneath pediment and
parapet. Two hipped roof dormers. Similar rear right wing, of one bay, has
similar architraves to 2 tripartite sashes. Interior: first floor not inspected.
(Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, p.849).
Listing NGR: SP3556809747
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 397914
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 849
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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