Corn Exchange
CORN EXCHANGE, MARKET STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1289140
- Date first listed:
- 06-Feb-1970
- List Entry Name:
- Corn Exchange
- Statutory Address:
- CORN EXCHANGE, MARKET STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1289140
- Date first listed:
- 06-Feb-1970
- List Entry Name:
- Corn Exchange
- Statutory Address 1:
- CORN EXCHANGE, MARKET STREET
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:
- CORN EXCHANGE, MARKET STREET
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 35641 09638
Details
WITNEY MARKET SQUARE SP3509N (East side) 10/178 Corn Exchanq 06/02/70 GV II
Corn Exchange, now offices. Built 1863. Squared and coursed limestone, with rusticated pilaster strips and dressings; gabled Welsh-slate roof; stone end stacks. Italian Classical style. 2 storeys; symmetrical 3-window range. Semi-circular arched doorway with rusticated surrounds to panelled double-leaf doors; balcony above supported by 2 huge brackets with carved flower swags. Door flanked by tripartite plate-glass sashes with rusticated segmental-arched architraves. First-floor cross-windows set in moulded stone architraves with bracketed cornices and central segmental pediment. Modillioned stone cornice beneath low parapet. Consoles flank central open-pedimented gable with ball finials and lunette. Keyed raised architraves to right side wall and long rear wing of one-storey, 5-window range, interior: mid C19 stairs, dado in room to left, and braced queen-post roof in first-floor chamber. (Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, p.846).
Listing NGR: SP3564109638
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 397865
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 846
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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