Batt House
BATT HOUSE, 16, MARKET SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1289128
- Date first listed:
- 14-May-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Batt House
- Statutory Address:
- BATT HOUSE, 16, MARKET SQUARE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1289128
- Date first listed:
- 14-May-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Batt House
- Statutory Address 1:
- BATT HOUSE, 16, 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:
- BATT HOUSE, 16, 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:
- SP 35569 09686
Details
WITNEY MARKET SQUARE SP3509N (West side) 10/192 No.16 (Batt House) 14/05/52 GV II*
House. c,1725. Limestone ashlar; gabled stone slate roof; stone end stacks. Central -staircase plan. Early Georgian style. 3 storeys; symmetrical 5-window range. Early C18 six-panelled door with overlight set in line pedimented doorcase with Tuscan pilasters. Raised architraves, with triple keyblocks except to attic, to late C19 plate-glass sashes. Raised chamfered quoins; raised storey bands; moulded cornice beneath parapet. Gabled dormers. C18 L-shaped wing to rear left: of partly roughcast limestone rubble, with gabled concrete tile roof and stone slate roof to rear; early C19 sashes to rear. Rear of main block has early C18 stair turret and mid C19 lean-to extension with reset C18 two-light window. Interior: C18 panelled doors. Hall has stone flag floor and moulded door architraves with pulvinated friezes; fine dog-leg with landing staircase with turned balusters set on closed string. Room to left has panelled dado, bayleaf-moulded architraves to windows and moulded cornice. Room to right has bolection panelling, dentilled cornice and moulded architrave to fireplace flanked by bracketed stands and keyed segmental-arched alcoves. Cased beams in rear wing. (Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, p.849).
Listing NGR: SP3556909686
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 397919
- 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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