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Latitude: 51.8729 / 51°52'22"N
Longitude: -1.4824 / 1°28'56"W
OS Eastings: 435729
OS Northings: 219493
OS Grid: SP357194
Mapcode National: GBR 6TM.J0V
Mapcode Global: VHBZP.8642
Plus Code: 9C3WVGF9+42
Entry Name: The Corner House Including Caretakers Flat and Charlbury Museum to Rear and Attached Forecourt Railings
Listing Date: 27 August 1956
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1367816
English Heritage Legacy ID: 254198
ID on this website: 101367816
Location: Charlbury, West Oxfordshire, OX7
County: Oxfordshire
District: West Oxfordshire
Civil Parish: Charlbury
Built-Up Area: Charlbury
Traditional County: Oxfordshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Oxfordshire
Church of England Parish: Charlbury with Shorthampton
Church of England Diocese: Oxford
Tagged with: Architectural structure
CHARLBURY
MARKET STREET
SP3519
5/56 (East side)
27/8/56 The Corner House
including caretakers
flat and Charlbury
Museum to rear and
attached forecourt
railings
GV II
House, subsequently town hall and library. C17 rear range with front wing
built in 1720s for William Spendlove and with C19 additions. Coursed
squared rubble with ashlar quoins and dressings; stone slate roof with C20
tiles on rear wing. L-plan, originally single-span front range, enlarged
to 2-span in C19 2 storeys and attic; 3-window range, symmetrical. Half-
glazed door has overlight with radial glazing bars and a stone architrave
with small hood. 16-pane sashes on ground floor; sash windows with
glazing bars and horns in first floor all in stone architraves with
keyblocks. Fire insurance plaque above centre window. 3-hipped dormers
have sashes with glazing bars in moulded wooden architraves. Rear range
faced in ashlar and straight jointed against the front range has similar
fenestration. Stone chimneys on each gable, those of rear range. Rear
wing at right angles has long range of casements with leaded lights
(possibly workshop) and other similar casements all with leaded lights
under timber lintels. Interior of front range has window shutters with
raised and fielded panels, and a black marble fireplace in the left
ground-floor room. Butt-purlin roof. C19 staircase in rear addition has
turned balusters. Rear wing has stop-chamfered ceiling beams on ground
floor. Simple iron railings with urn finials to standards on dwarf
forecourt wall. VCH Oxfordshire 10 (1972), 131
Listing NGR: SP3573019502
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