Danvers House, Dashwood House And Calthorpe House

SP4540SW 9/39 09/04/52

BANBURY DASHWODD TERRACE No.7 (Danvers House), No.8 (Dashwood House) and No.9 (Calthorpe House)

GV II*

Three houses, once substantial house, now divided into flats. No.9 is C16 or earlier with later additions and alterations; Nos.7 and 8 have datestones JL/1900 and JL/1876, respectively. Nos.7 and 8 of ashlar ironstone with brick to sides and rear; No.9 partly of regular coursed ironstone rubble and partly ironstone ashlar. Slate roofs. Brick ridge, lateral and end stacks. 2 storeys plus attics throughout. 5 gable-front bays altogether. No.7: 4-window range. 2 bays. Stone porch to left has pointed arched doorway and plank door with rails. Casement window to left, 2 sashes with glazing bars to right. First floor has 3 sashes with glazing bars and a tall fixed light. 3 half-dormer windows including 2 sashes. No.8: 2-window range. Single bay. C19 ironstone ashlar porch to right has 4-centred arched doorway, part-glazed door and 2-light stone-mullioned window. Embattled parapet with one surviving finial. Window to left has intersecting glazing bars. 2 first floor windows including a pointed arched window with diamond leaded lights and fragmentary remains of hood mould and head stops. 2-light half-dormer window. No.9: 2 bays. Shallow, embattled 2-storey porch has door surround bearing the arms of the Hawten family who acquired the house between 1604 and 1614. Doorway has a 4-centred arched head and part-glazed plank door. Hood mould with label stops. Doorway is flanked by tall sashes with glazing bars, hood moulds and label stops. Plain door to left; upper floor of the porch has a 6-light stone-mullioned and transomed window. Similar 3-light window to the left and a sash with glazing bars to the right. First floor windows have a continuous hood mould with label stops. 2 half-dormers: a 3-light stone-mullioned window with hood mould and label stops and a sash window with glazing bars and hood mould and label stops. Right end remodelled late C18/early C19 has embattled porch, with Gothick glazing. 2 first-floor sashes have glazing bars and hood moulds with label stops. Interior Calthorpe House: ground floor room has a plaster rib vault on angel corbels. One corbel bears the arms of the Cobb family, who owned the Calthorpe estate between 1801-1875. Reputed to have an arched braced collar-beam truss roof in the south range of Calthorpe House. Joseph Lumber, clothier, owned the properties in the C19. (V.C.H.: Oxfordshire, Vol.X, pp.36,44 and 45; Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, 1974, p.442).

Listing NGR: SP4541840240