21 AND 23, CASTLE SQUARE
21 AND 23, CASTLE SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1369030
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jul-1963
- List Entry Name:
- 21 AND 23, CASTLE SQUARE
- Statutory Address:
- 21 AND 23, CASTLE SQUARE
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- 2003-03-16
- Reference:
- IOE01/09230/30
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1369030
- Date first listed:
- 18-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
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:
- 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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 247739
- 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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