Launton House
LAUNTON HOUSE, WEST END
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1232914
- Date first listed:
- 09-Dec-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Launton House
- Statutory Address:
- LAUNTON HOUSE, WEST END
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1232914
- Date first listed:
- 09-Dec-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Launton House
- Statutory Address 1:
- LAUNTON HOUSE, WEST END
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:
- LAUNTON HOUSE, WEST END
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- Cherwell (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Launton
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 60862 22420
Details
SP6022 LAUNTON WEST END (West side)
13/102 Launton House
- II
Substantial house. Late C18, probably for John Ashby. Brick in Flemish bond with limestone-ashlar dressings; old plain-tile roofs with brick end stacks. L-plan. 3 storeys. Symmetrical 3-window front has a central doorway with a triangular-pedimented and pilastered stone doorcase, a 6-panel door with ornamental overlight and panelled reveals, and has moulded stone architraves to all windows; ground and first-floor windows have 12-pane sashes and second-floor windows have 6-pane sashes. Doorway is partly concealed by a glazed canopy with C19 cast-iron columns. Ashlar plinth and brick parapet continue around sides, returning on left to the rear wing. Left side has projecting stacks flanking pairs of sashes with rubbed and gauged flat arches; rear has similar windows. Interior not inspected. Noted as existing in 1797. (V.C.H.: Oxfordshire, Vol.VI, p.234).
Listing NGR: SP6086222420
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 408294
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1959), 234
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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