F B Hancock Solicitors
F B HANCOCK SOLICITORS, 24, HORSE FAIR, BANBURY, OX16 0YA
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1283202
- Date first listed:
- 09-Apr-1952
- List Entry Name:
- F B Hancock Solicitors
- Statutory Address:
- F B HANCOCK SOLICITORS, 24, HORSE FAIR, BANBURY, OX16 0YA
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1283202
- Date first listed:
- 09-Apr-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 14-Feb-1986
- List Entry Name:
- F B Hancock Solicitors
- Statutory Address 1:
- F B HANCOCK SOLICITORS, 24, HORSE FAIR, BANBURY, OX16 0YA
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:
- F B HANCOCK SOLICITORS, 24, HORSE FAIR, BANBURY, OX16 0YA
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- Cherwell (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Banbury
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 45368 40510
Details
SP4540NW
6/87
BANBURY
HORSE FAIR (East side)
No.24 (F.B. Hancock,Solicitors)
(Formerly listed as No.24 (Vicarage))
09/04/52
GV
II*
Vicarage, now offices. Datestones 1649/SW and HB/1860. Originally C17 and
earlier, extended and altered in C19. Regular coursed ironstone rubble. Steeply
pitched slate roof Stone ridge and end stacks, stone copings. 2 storeys plus
attic. 2-window range. Gabled 2-storey stone porch to right has 4-centred arched
head with quatrefoil decoration in the spandrels. 2-light stone mullioned window
to first floor. To left "a 2-storey bay window with 5-lights to both floors.
Crenellated parapet dated 1967/D.I.T.E. Between the bay window and porch are
4-light stone mullion windows to both floors. Continuous hood moulds to both
floors. 2 large gabled attic dormers each have 3-light stone mullions, windows
with hood moulds and label stops. Copings and kneelers. 2-light stone mullion
windows to cellar. Gothic Revival wing to north side dated HB/1860 has stone
mullioned and transomed windows with traceried heads and 5 gabled attic dormers
with bargeboards and pendants. Rear: Rebuilt using original ironstone. Interior:
C17 stone fireplace with inglenooks and moulded bressumer, wooden winder and
dog-leg stairs. C19 fireplace in hall has panelled, coved hood, Pointed, arched
niches on first floor probably for candles. Datestone 1649/SW attributed to
Samuel Wells, Vicar of Banbury. Datestone HB/1860 attributed to Henry Back,
Vicar of Banbury 1860-81.
(Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, 1974, p.443; V.C.H.:Oxfordshire, Vol.X,
p.100).
Listing NGR: SP4536840515
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 244381
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1972), 100
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 443
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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