OBELISK (AT JUNCTION OF MARLOW ROAD AND NORTHFIELD END)

OBELISK (AT JUNCTION OF MARLOW ROAD AND NORTHFIELD END), NORTHFIELD END

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1219514
Date first listed:: 25-Jan-1951
List Entry Name:: OBELISK (AT JUNCTION OF MARLOW ROAD AND NORTHFIELD END)
Statutory Address:: OBELISK (AT JUNCTION OF MARLOW ROAD AND NORTHFIELD END), NORTHFIELD END

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1219514
Date first listed:: 25-Jan-1951
List Entry Name:: OBELISK (AT JUNCTION OF MARLOW ROAD AND NORTHFIELD END)
Statutory Address 1:: OBELISK (AT JUNCTION OF MARLOW ROAD AND NORTHFIELD END), NORTHFIELD END

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: OBELISK (AT JUNCTION OF MARLOW ROAD AND NORTHFIELD END), NORTHFIELD END

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Oxfordshire
District:: South Oxfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Henley-on-Thames
National Grid Reference:: SU7651582291

Details

1. 5355 SU 7683 8/108 25.1.51

NORTHFIELD END (East Side) Obelisk (at junction of Marlow Road and Northfield End)

II GV

2. Circa 1806. Square plan. Of Portland stone with short base and moulded plinth and cap- tapering shaft. Originally erected at Hart Street/Market Place crossing to commemorate Middle Row which was demolished to give a better approach to new Henley Bridge - opened 1786. Formerly combined with a pump.

Denmark House, Elm House, Ruperts Elm, Ruperts Guard, White House, the Obelisk and No 30 form a group with Nos 1 to 11 and 15 to 25 (odd) opposite and with Nos 93 and 95, Nos 70 to 102 (even) and the building at the rear of No 70, Bell Street and also with Tarry's Cottage, Bell Cottage and The flat on Ruperts Lane.

Listing NGR: SU7651582291

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Legacy System number:: 246309
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.