Brittanic Insurance Brown And Mumford

BANBURY SOUTH BAR STREET SP4540SW (West side) 9/189 Nos.49 and 50 (Brittanic 07/10/69 Insurance, Brown & Mumford) (Formerly listed as No.49 and No.50) GV II House, now offices. Late C17 with later alterations and additions including 2-storey bay window to left. Regular coursed ironstone rubble. Steeply pitched tile roof. Brick ridge and end stacks. 2 storeys plus attic; 4-window range. 2 entrances. Entrance to right incorporated in stone porch with stone-mullioned and transomed windows. Entrance to left has 6-panelled door with fanlight, and pedimented stone doorcase. Doorway is flanked by a canted 2-storey bay window to left and tripartite sash to right. First floor has 4 windows including a bay window, 2 sashes and a stone-mullioned and transomed window. 2 gabled roof dormers. Ironstone parapet. No.49 interior: dog-leg stair, panelled door with cock's head hinge in attic office, C18 ceiling bands, boxed beams, picture rails and panelled doors. No.50 interior: dog-leg stair. C17 plaster ceiling. Noted as having a 4-centred arched stone fireplace. (Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, 1974, p.441; V.C.H.: Oxfordshire, Vol.X, p.32).

Listing NGR: SP4528140320