21 AND 23, CASTLE SQUARE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1369030
Date first listed:: 17-Jul-1963
List Entry Name:: 21 AND 23, CASTLE SQUARE
Statutory Address:: 21 AND 23, CASTLE SQUARE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1369030
Date first listed:: 17-Jul-1963
Date of most recent amendment:: 28-Nov-1985
List Entry Name:: 21 AND 23, CASTLE SQUARE
Statutory Address 1:: 21 AND 23, CASTLE SQUARE

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:: 21 AND 23, CASTLE SQUARE

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

County:: Oxfordshire
District:: South Oxfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Benson
National Grid Reference:: SU6175391728

Details

SU6191 7/30 18/07/63

BENSON CASTLE SQUARE (North side) Nos.21 and 23 (Formerly listed as Elm House)

GV II

House, now shop. Early C18 with C19 alterations. Painted brick to ground floor; grey brick with red brick dressings to first floor; plain-tile roof; brick end stack to left. 2 storey and attic; 3-window range. 6-panelled door with decorative overlight and moulded wood architrave to left of centre. C20 glazed door to right of centre flanked by 6-pane C19 shop windows. Angled bay to left with flat roof. Brick band between ground and first floor. Three 4-pane sashes to first floor. Shaped brick cornice to base of parapetted eaves. Flat-roofed dormer to left of centre. Roof half-hipped to right. Interior not inspected.

Listing NGR: SU6175391728

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Legacy System number:: 247739
Legacy System:: LBS

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