Watlington Branch Library
WATLINGTON BRANCH LIBRARY, 33 AND 35, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1369014
- Date first listed:
- 11-Dec-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Watlington Branch Library
- Statutory Address:
- WATLINGTON BRANCH LIBRARY, 33 AND 35, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1369014
- Date first listed:
- 11-Dec-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Watlington Branch Library
- Statutory Address 1:
- WATLINGTON BRANCH LIBRARY, 33 AND 35, HIGH 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:
- WATLINGTON BRANCH LIBRARY, 33 AND 35, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- South Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Watlington
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 68844 94540
Details
WATLINGTON HIGH STREET SU6894 (South side) 6/194 Nos.33 and 35 (Watlington Branch Library)
GV II
House, now library and flat. Mid/late C16, remodelled in mid C19. Originally timber-framed. Front of mid C19 Flemish bond brick with flared headers; rest of flint rubble with brick dressings; gabled old tile roof; brick left end stack. 3-unit plan. 2-storeys; 3-window range. Flat gauged brick arches over mid C19 four-panelled door with overlight and mid C19 horned sashes to left; mid C19 shop front with C20 door to right; timber lintels over first-floor mid C19 horned sashes. Dentilled eaves. C18 two-storey wing of brick to rear left. Interior: ground floor has quartered cased beams, one chamfered: first floor open to 3-bay queen-post roof with curved windbraces and clasped purlins. Two-storey stuccoed bay to right has mid C19 horned sash over horizontal sliding sash and mid C19 two-panelled door: C16 chamfered arch-braced collar truss.
Listing NGR: SU6884894539
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 247666
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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