BRITTANIC INSURANCE BROWN AND MUMFORD

BRITTANIC INSURANCE, 49, SOUTH BAR STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1300709
Date first listed:: 07-Oct-1969
List Entry Name:: BRITTANIC INSURANCE BROWN AND MUMFORD
Statutory Address:: BRITTANIC INSURANCE, 49, SOUTH BAR STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1300709
Date first listed:: 07-Oct-1969
Date of most recent amendment:: 14-Feb-1986
List Entry Name:: BRITTANIC INSURANCE BROWN AND MUMFORD
Statutory Address 1:: BRITTANIC INSURANCE, 49, SOUTH BAR STREET
Statutory Address 2:: BROWN AND MUMFORD, 50, SOUTH BAR STREET

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: BRITTANIC INSURANCE, 49, SOUTH BAR STREET
Statutory Address:: BROWN AND MUMFORD, 50, SOUTH BAR STREET

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 45281 40320

Details

BANBURY SOUTH BAR STREET SP4540SW (West side) 9/189 Nos.49 and 50 (Brittanic 07/10/69 Insurance, Brown & Mumford) (Formerly listed as No.49 and No.50) GV II House, now offices. Late C17 with later alterations and additions including 2-storey bay window to left. Regular coursed ironstone rubble. Steeply pitched tile roof. Brick ridge and end stacks. 2 storeys plus attic; 4-window range. 2 entrances. Entrance to right incorporated in stone porch with stone-mullioned and transomed windows. Entrance to left has 6-panelled door with fanlight, and pedimented stone doorcase. Doorway is flanked by a canted 2-storey bay window to left and tripartite sash to right. First floor has 4 windows including a bay window, 2 sashes and a stone-mullioned and transomed window. 2 gabled roof dormers. Ironstone parapet. No.49 interior: dog-leg stair, panelled door with cock's head hinge in attic office, C18 ceiling bands, boxed beams, picture rails and panelled doors. No.50 interior: dog-leg stair. C17 plaster ceiling. Noted as having a 4-centred arched stone fireplace. (Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, 1974, p.441; V.C.H.: Oxfordshire, Vol.X, p.32).

Listing NGR: SP4528140320

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Legacy System number:: 244489
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 441
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1972), 32

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.