Denton House

SP 5902 CUDDESDON AND DENTON DENTON Denton House. 9/21 (Formerly listed as Denton 18/07/63 House with garden wall and gateway to road) GV II*

Mansion. C16 and C17, re-modelled mid C18. Limestone rubble with ashlar dressings; plain-tile roof with brick stacks. Double-depth plan of 5x3 bays. 3 storeys. Symmetrical mid-C18 5-window (south) front with central segmental-arched door with moulded architrave and keyblock under a segmental stone hood on consoles; above are narrow sashes, 8-pane to first floor with moulded round-cornered architrave and keyblock, and 4-pane to second floor with rectangular architrave; flanking at each floor are pairs of narrow renewed sashes with roll-moulded surrounds and keyblocks; the wall has plinth, moulded storey-bands and a heavy cornice below a plain parapet. To right is a single-storey one-bay wing with an C18 sash. Additional C20 sashes have been inserted either side of the central first-floor window. Return front to left has remains of C17 moulded string-courses and simpler keyblock surrounds, probably earlier. Return front to right has some C18 sashes, 2 leaded cross- windows and 2 bell-shaped lead rainwater-heads with dolphin crests and the date 1757. Rear has C17 string-courses and remains of a C17 moulded-stone window- surround. Concealed roof of 3 spans with a timber bell-cote. Interior: Central cross-hall at each floor with a large oak open-well stair at the rear with flat moulded balusters and the date lb14 on panelling and a large moulded stone Tudor-arched fireplaces a smaller similar fireplace is in a second-floor room immediately above. To right of the entrance hall is a room with C18 chestnut and elm full-height fielded panelling with a dentil cornice. At the rear but now internal are remains of a C16 stone-mullioned window with ovolo-moulded 4-centre arched lights. (V.C.H. Oxfordshire V. p,l06 Buildings of England, Oxfordshire, p.564)

Listing NGR: SP5934602553