Gateway Stores

GATEWAY STORES, MARKET SQUARE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1367673
Date first listed:
12-Sept-1955
List Entry Name:
Gateway Stores
Statutory Address:
GATEWAY STORES, MARKET SQUARE
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1367673
Date first listed:
12-Sept-1955
Date of most recent amendment:
04-May-1989
List Entry Name:
Gateway Stores
Statutory Address 1:
GATEWAY STORES, 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.

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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:
GATEWAY STORES, 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:
Bampton
National Grid Reference:
SP 31497 03159

Details

SP3003-3103 BAMPTON MARKET SQUARE (South side) 13/100 Gateway Stores 12/09/55 (Formerly listed as Premises 20yds S of Eastern end of Town Hall and Market House)

GV II Shop and dwelling. Late C18, altered early C19 and C20. Ground floor rendered and colourwashed C20; upper storey of semi-dressed limestone; C20 plain tile roof with flanking brick chimneys. 2 storeys, 2 bays. Projecting plinth, rendered band course at first floor sill level. First floor has 3-pane sashes with slightly chamfered wooden lintels. All ground floor openings renewed C20, each bay having a bowed shop window of 4 x 6 panes with moulded wooden cornice. and semi-circular arched doorway to left. Both doorways have radiating fanlights, but left door is recessed, and centre door is C20 and half-glazed. Both doors formerly had semi-circular stone hoods, now removed. Dormer windows also removed. Included for group value. (Illustrated in Country Life: July 19th: 1946, p119)

Listing NGR: SP3144603202

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
253407
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Country Life in 19 July, (1946), 119

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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