Austin House
AUSTIN HOUSE, 24, SOUTH BAR STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1369540
- Date first listed:
- 07-Oct-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Austin House
- Statutory Address:
- AUSTIN HOUSE, 24, SOUTH BAR STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1369540
- Date first listed:
- 07-Oct-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Austin House
- Statutory Address 1:
- AUSTIN HOUSE, 24, SOUTH BAR 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:
- AUSTIN HOUSE, 24, SOUTH BAR STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- Cherwell (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Banbury
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 45362 40190
Details
BANBURY SOUTH BAR STREET SP4550SW (East side) 9/181 No.24 (Austin House) 07/10/69 GV II
Baptist chapel, now offices. 1834 with later alterations. Red brick, hipped Welsh slate roof, brick end stack. 2 storeys; 3-window range. Central 2-storey advanced entrance bay has porch with slender columns. Panelled double doors. Decorated overlight. Single sash above entrance has glazing bars and stone sill. Ground floor to left and right of porch has sashes with glazing bars, brick flat arches and stone sills. 2 similar windows to first floor. All windows of 3-pane width. Basement has sashes with glazing bars. Moulded chamfered cornice. Erected for Richard Austin (d.1840). The Austin family were prominent brewers and Baptists in C19 Banbury. (V.C.H.: Oxfordshire, Vol.X, pp.92 and 116).
Listing NGR: SP4536240190
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 244481
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1972), 92 116
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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