The Corner House Including Caretakers Flat and Charlbury Museum to Rear and Attached Forecourt Railings
THE CORNER HOUSE INCLUDING CARETAKERS FLAT AND CHARLBURY MUSEUM TO REAR AND ATTACHED FORECOURT RAILINGS, MARKET STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1367816
- Date first listed:
- 27-Aug-1956
- List Entry Name:
- The Corner House Including Caretakers Flat and Charlbury Museum to Rear and Attached Forecourt Railings
- Statutory Address:
- THE CORNER HOUSE INCLUDING CARETAKERS FLAT AND CHARLBURY MUSEUM TO REAR AND ATTACHED FORECOURT RAILINGS, MARKET STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1367816
- Date first listed:
- 27-Aug-1956
- List Entry Name:
- The Corner House Including Caretakers Flat and Charlbury Museum to Rear and Attached Forecourt Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE CORNER HOUSE INCLUDING CARETAKERS FLAT AND CHARLBURY MUSEUM TO REAR AND ATTACHED FORECOURT RAILINGS, 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:
- THE CORNER HOUSE INCLUDING CARETAKERS FLAT AND CHARLBURY MUSEUM TO REAR AND ATTACHED FORECOURT RAILINGS, 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:
- Charlbury
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 35729 19493
Details
CHARLBURY MARKET STREET SP3519 5/56 (East side) 27/8/56 The Corner House including caretakers flat and Charlbury Museum to rear and attached forecourt railings GV II
House, subsequently town hall and library. C17 rear range with front wing built in 1720s for William Spendlove and with C19 additions. Coursed squared rubble with ashlar quoins and dressings; stone slate roof with C20 tiles on rear wing. L-plan, originally single-span front range, enlarged to 2-span in C19 2 storeys and attic; 3-window range, symmetrical. Half- glazed door has overlight with radial glazing bars and a stone architrave with small hood. 16-pane sashes on ground floor; sash windows with glazing bars and horns in first floor all in stone architraves with keyblocks. Fire insurance plaque above centre window. 3-hipped dormers have sashes with glazing bars in moulded wooden architraves. Rear range faced in ashlar and straight jointed against the front range has similar fenestration. Stone chimneys on each gable, those of rear range. Rear wing at right angles has long range of casements with leaded lights (possibly workshop) and other similar casements all with leaded lights under timber lintels. Interior of front range has window shutters with raised and fielded panels, and a black marble fireplace in the left ground-floor room. Butt-purlin roof. C19 staircase in rear addition has turned balusters. Rear wing has stop-chamfered ceiling beams on ground floor. Simple iron railings with urn finials to standards on dwarf forecourt wall. VCH Oxfordshire 10 (1972), 131
Listing NGR: SP3573019502
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 254198
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1972), 131
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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