Oxford Knitwear WJ Castle (Butchers)
OXFORD KNITWEAR, 113, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1224037
- Date first listed:
- 12-Sept-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Oxford Knitwear WJ Castle (Butchers)
- Statutory Address:
- OXFORD KNITWEAR, 113, HIGH STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1224037
- Date first listed:
- 12-Sept-1955
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 01-Mar-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Oxford Knitwear WJ Castle (Butchers)
- Statutory Address 1:
- OXFORD KNITWEAR, 113, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- WJ CASTLE (BUTCHERS), 111, HIGH STREET
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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:
- OXFORD KNITWEAR, 113, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- WJ CASTLE (BUTCHERS), 111, 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:
- Burford
- National Grid Reference:
- SP2515112130
Details
BURFORD AND UPTON HIGH STREET
AND SIGNET (East Side)
SP2512 (Enlargement) No 111 (WJ Castle
7/84 (Butchers) and No 113
12.9.55 (Oxford Knitwear)
(Previously listed as
"Premises adjoining London
House to South and next but
one South of London House)
GV II*
House. C15 or early C16. Pebble dash over timber-frame, Cotswold stone
roof, brick chimney to left. U-plan sophisticated elevation. 2 storeys;
3 gables to front with carved bargeboards, 2 of them original. 3 oriel
bays to 1st floor with timber mullion and transom windows of 1:4:1 lights
Boxed-out shop front on ashlar base with lean-to Cotswold stone roof. A
pair of early-mid C19 glazing-bar sashes to left. Interior: 2 moulded
posts to former jetty bressumer; East room (at end of rear extension)
panelled, Tudor-arched fire-place with arcaded oak over mantel in Jacobean
style, 2 moulded cross beams. Timber-framed L-plan 2-storey rear wing
with coved eaves, 5-light wooden window with arched heads; continues in
stone with same coved eaves into which breaks a trefoil-headed C15 window,
blocked doorway with drip below, carved saddle-stone at East end. East
gable partly rendered; steep Tudor-arched window (containing a pair of C19
sashes) to 1st floor, 4-light hollow chamfered mullion windows with
stilted drips to ground floor. The gable to rear of main wing is in
coursed and squared rubble and has a 2-light oak mullioned window
partially overlaid by lower 2-storey South-East wing, this is in part
timber-framed and has 2 windows on 1st floor (partly with C18 leading),
and 3 windows on ground floor with ashlar mullions, centre part with
Yorkshire sashes; further 3-bay extension to East, then a single-storey
and finally a one-and-half storey wing in the yard. Covered gantry (C20)
between the two wings. Tudor arched fireplace in 2-storey part of
S.E. wing.
Interior: rear room of Oxford Knitwear has substantial, partly re-used
timber and C16 and C17 grafitti on a post.
See: M Laithwaite, Perspectives in Urban History (1973, ed. Everitt).
Listing NGR: SP2515112130
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 419984
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Laithwaite, M, Perspectives in Urban History, (1973)
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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