Browns Clays Butchers Lunn Poly

BANBURY HIGH STREET SP4540NE (North side) 7/48 Nos.85 (Lunn Poly), No.86 09/04/52 (Browns) and No.87 (Clays Butchers) (Formerly listed as No.85, No.86 and No.87) GV II*

House, now shops. Dated 1650. Built for Edward Vivers, Mercer. Restored 1847. Brick, ironstone and stucco, Welsh slate roof, brick ridge stack. 2 storeys plus attic; 3-window range. Frontage to High Street has three C20 shop fronts on ground floor. 3 bow windows to first floor have ovolo moulded wood mullions, with timber framing between. 3 gable front full dormers have 3-light windows. Jettied attic storey has carved wooden frieze with pendants, some renewed, and ornamental bargeboards with finials. Roughcast with pargetting in heartshapes and fleurs-de-lys. Left end: brick ground floor to C20 shop front. First floor has 3 classical style pedimented wooden windows on brackets. Single gabled dormer with casement to left. Sundial on front. Interior: ground floor has stop-chamfered moulded beams. First floor has two C17 stone fireplaces, one with moulded jambs, and flanking pilasters. Renewed straight flight stair. Butt-purlin roof. Photograph in N.M.R. (Potts, W., A History of Banbury, 1958, p.205; Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, 1974, p.441; V.C.H.: Oxfordshire, Vol.X, p.32).

Listing NGR: SP4566240598