Town Hall

TOWN HALL, MARKET PLACE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1300780
Date first listed:
05-May-1988
List Entry Name:
Town Hall
Statutory Address:
TOWN HALL, MARKET PLACE
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1300780
Date first listed:
05-May-1988
List Entry Name:
Town Hall
Statutory Address 1:
TOWN HALL, MARKET PLACE

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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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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
TOWN HALL, MARKET PLACE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Oxfordshire
District:
Cherwell (District Authority)
Parish:
Deddington
National Grid Reference:
SP 46692 31658

Details

SP4631 DEDDINGTON MARKET PLACE 8/184 Town Hall GV II Town hall. Rebuilt 1806, probably incorporating part of the former early-C17 structure. Brick with marlstone dressings, and rendered timber-framing; Welsh-slate roof with brick gable stack. Rectangular plan of 3 by 2 bays on an island site. 2 storeys. Ground floor has an arcade of segmental arches on square brick piers with stone bases and impost blocks; the bay at the northern end is built up but the rest is open. Rendered upper floor rising from a rendered band has renewed casements: a pair of 2-light windows in the south gable wall, a 3-light window to north with a similar window in the gable, and two 3-light casements in the east wall. Steep-pitched roof. Interior: intersecting chamfered beams and lateral beams morticed for braces relate to an earlier wholely timber-framed structure and appear to be in situ; first-floor walls and roof have no visible work earlier than C19. Early-C19 joinery and benches in council chamber. (Buildings of England: Oxfordshire: p571; VCH: Oxfordshire: Vol XI, p87)

Listing NGR: SP4669231658

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Legacy System number:
243909
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Sources

Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1983), 87
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974)

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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