High Street House is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 July 1963. Town house. 7 related planning applications.

High Street House

WRENN ID
old-belfry-nettle
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Oxfordshire
Country
England
Date first listed
18 July 1963
Type
Town house
Source
Historic England listing

Description

High Street House is an early 18th-century town house, likely dating from circa 1720-30. The front facade is constructed of grey brick with red brick dressings, although the ground floor was rebuilt in the late 19th century using brick. The roof is not visible, and the building has moulded brick rear lateral and end stacks. It follows a double-depth plan and is designed in an Early Georgian style.

The house is three storeys high with a five-window front. It features a fine doorcase with fluted pilasters, a pulvinated frieze, and a segmental pediment, leading to a five-panelled door. The ground-floor sash windows have late 19th-century red brick aprons, while the upper floors have 18th-century sashes set within gauged brick segmental arches. Red brick moulded string courses and gauged red brick pilasters with moulded entablatures extend upwards to meet cornices beneath a parapet.

A two-storey rear wing, constructed of chequer brick with a raised storey band and a gabled old tile roof, adjoins the main house. This wing features a canted bay with sashes to the rear, a stair turret to the left, and a symmetrical wing to the right which contains a four-panelled door with an overlight. A mid-18th-century wing to the rear features mid-19th-century sash windows.

The interior contains a mixture of 18th and 19th-century panelled doors. The ground floor includes chamfered spine beams with run-out stops and an ogee-stopped beam, an early 18th-century fireplace on the left side, and a mid-18th-century panelled room to the rear left. The hall on the rear right features early and mid-18th-century panelling and a dog-leg staircase with barley-sugar balusters on a closed string, with a panelled dado. On the first floor, a bolection-panelled room is located to the right, while a straight-cut panelled room, featuring a bolection-moulded overmantel, is to the left. The second floor contains a panelled landing and mid-18th-century panelled rooms with stone fireplaces on both the left and right sides.

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