Garden Wall Of Denton House

SP 5902 CUDDESDON AND DENTON DENTON 9/22 Garden wall of Denton House. 18/07/63 (Formerly listed as Denton House with garden wall and gateway to road) GV II*

Garden wall. Late C17/early C18 and mid C18 with mid-C17 features. Limestone rubble with some ashlar dressings and brickwork. Earlier section runs from north of the house along part of the east side and around the north and west sides of the garden. It is 2.5 to 3m high and has a tapering coursed- rubble coping. Set into the wall are Gothic Survival windows of c.1665 by the mason John Jackson, brought from Brasenose College, Oxford in 1844-5. On the north is a large 5-light window with oval wheel tracery under a pointed arch, formerly the east window of the chapel. On the west are 6 round-headed windows of cusped lights from the library. The south wall has a flat coping. Immediately south of the house begins a mid-C18 section which returns northwards to the front. It is of banded rubble and ashlar with a brick lining in Flemish bond. Opposite the main (south) front of the house, also immediately north in the east wall, are mid-C18 doorways with 3-centre arched heads and moulded architraves with key-blocks. The main gateway in the east wall, immediately south of the house, is probably late C17. It has a 3-centred arch in a rectangular surround with key-block and imposts which continue over flanking pilasters; above is an open segmental pediment with a central cartouche and pedestal. (V.C.H. Oxfordshire V, p.106; Buildings of England, Oxfordshire, pp564-5 and pp,106-7 for Brasenose College.)

Listing NGR: SP5925402584