FORMERLY THE AIR BALLOON PUBLIC HOUSE

FORMERLY THE AIR BALLOON PUBLIC HOUSE, 169, OCK STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1389685
Date first listed:: 18-Oct-2000
List Entry Name:: FORMERLY THE AIR BALLOON PUBLIC HOUSE
Statutory Address:: FORMERLY THE AIR BALLOON PUBLIC HOUSE, 169, OCK STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1389685
Date first listed:: 18-Oct-2000
List Entry Name:: FORMERLY THE AIR BALLOON PUBLIC HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: FORMERLY THE AIR BALLOON PUBLIC HOUSE, 169, OCK STREET

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: FORMERLY THE AIR BALLOON PUBLIC HOUSE, 169, OCK STREET

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

County:: Oxfordshire
District:: Vale of White Horse (District Authority)
Parish:: Abingdon on Thames
National Grid Reference:: SU4895596970

Details

SU4896 583/1/10006 18-OCT-00

ABINGDON OCK STREET (North side) 169 Formerly The Air Balloon public house

GV II

Public house. Early C19; extended circa 1830s. Red brick in Flemish bond with vitrefied headers. Welsh slate roofs, east range hipped with brick dentil eaves course, west range gable-ended. Brick axial stacks. PLAN: 2-room plan early C19 range on left; extended circa 1830s by addition of taller block on right [east]. EXTERIOR: 2-storey 2-window range on left, ground floor central doorway with small canopy on shaped brackets flanked by tripartite sashes with glazing bars; two smaller windows on first floor with cambered brick arches. Taller 2-storey and attic, 1-window range on right with band at first floor level, large 16-pane sashes and small gabled dormer with 6-pane sash. Right-hand [E] return has bowed window on ground floor, first floor band, 16-pane first floor sash and small gabled attic dormer with 6-pane sash. All windows boarded over, except dormer for windows. INTERIOR not inspected.

Legacy

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Legacy System number:: 488393
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.