Town Hall

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