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Town Hall

A Grade II Listed Building in Deddington, Oxfordshire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.9814 / 51°58'53"N

Longitude: -1.3216 / 1°19'17"W

OS Eastings: 446692

OS Northings: 231658

OS Grid: SP466316

Mapcode National: GBR 7TT.NPQ

Mapcode Global: VHCWN.1GPD

Plus Code: 9C3WXMJH+H9

Entry Name: Town Hall

Listing Date: 5 May 1988

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1300780

English Heritage Legacy ID: 243909

ID on this website: 101300780

Location: Deddington, Cherwell, Oxfordshire, OX15

County: Oxfordshire

District: Cherwell

Civil Parish: Deddington

Built-Up Area: Deddington

Traditional County: Oxfordshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Oxfordshire

Church of England Parish: Deddington

Church of England Diocese: Oxford

Tagged with: City hall Seat of local government

Description


SP4631 DEDDINGTON MARKET PLACE 8/184 Town Hall GV II Town hall. Rebuilt 1806, probably incorporating part of the former early-C17 structure. Brick with marlstone dressings, and rendered timber-framing; Welsh-slate roof with brick gable stack. Rectangular plan of 3 by 2 bays on an island site. 2 storeys. Ground floor has an arcade of segmental arches on square brick piers with stone bases and impost blocks; the bay at the northern end is built up but the rest is open. Rendered upper floor rising from a rendered band has renewed casements: a pair of 2-light windows in the south gable wall, a 3-light window to north with a similar window in the gable, and two 3-light casements in the east wall. Steep-pitched roof. Interior: intersecting chamfered beams and lateral beams morticed for braces relate to an earlier wholely timber-framed structure and appear to be in situ; first-floor walls and roof have no visible work earlier than C19. Early-C19 joinery and benches in council chamber. (Buildings of England: Oxfordshire: p571; VCH: Oxfordshire: Vol XI, p87)

Listing NGR: SP4669231658

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