Launton House is a Grade II listed building in the Cherwell local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 December 1987. House. 3 related planning applications.
Launton House
- WRENN ID
- broken-span-equinox
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cherwell
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 December 1987
- Type
- House
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
SP6022 LAUNTON WEST END (West side)
13/102 Launton House
- II
Substantial house. Late C18, probably for John Ashby. Brick in Flemish bond with limestone-ashlar dressings; old plain-tile roofs with brick end stacks. L-plan. 3 storeys. Symmetrical 3-window front has a central doorway with a triangular-pedimented and pilastered stone doorcase, a 6-panel door with ornamental overlight and panelled reveals, and has moulded stone architraves to all windows; ground and first-floor windows have 12-pane sashes and second-floor windows have 6-pane sashes. Doorway is partly concealed by a glazed canopy with C19 cast-iron columns. Ashlar plinth and brick parapet continue around sides, returning on left to the rear wing. Left side has projecting stacks flanking pairs of sashes with rubbed and gauged flat arches; rear has similar windows. Interior not inspected. Noted as existing in 1797. (V.C.H.: Oxfordshire, Vol.VI, p.234).
Listing NGR: SP6086222420
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