The Corner House Including Caretakers Flat And Charlbury Museum To Rear And Attached Forecourt Railings

CHARLBURY MARKET STREET SP3519 5/56 (East side) 27/8/56 The Corner House including caretakers flat and Charlbury Museum to rear and attached forecourt railings GV II

House, subsequently town hall and library. C17 rear range with front wing built in 1720s for William Spendlove and with C19 additions. Coursed squared rubble with ashlar quoins and dressings; stone slate roof with C20 tiles on rear wing. L-plan, originally single-span front range, enlarged to 2-span in C19 2 storeys and attic; 3-window range, symmetrical. Half- glazed door has overlight with radial glazing bars and a stone architrave with small hood. 16-pane sashes on ground floor; sash windows with glazing bars and horns in first floor all in stone architraves with keyblocks. Fire insurance plaque above centre window. 3-hipped dormers have sashes with glazing bars in moulded wooden architraves. Rear range faced in ashlar and straight jointed against the front range has similar fenestration. Stone chimneys on each gable, those of rear range. Rear wing at right angles has long range of casements with leaded lights (possibly workshop) and other similar casements all with leaded lights under timber lintels. Interior of front range has window shutters with raised and fielded panels, and a black marble fireplace in the left ground-floor room. Butt-purlin roof. C19 staircase in rear addition has turned balusters. Rear wing has stop-chamfered ceiling beams on ground floor. Simple iron railings with urn finials to standards on dwarf forecourt wall. VCH Oxfordshire 10 (1972), 131

Listing NGR: SP3573019502