The Playpen is a Grade II* listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 April 1952. A C14 House, shop. 2 related planning applications.

The Playpen

WRENN ID
peeling-joist-mint
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
West Oxfordshire
Country
England
Date first listed
23 April 1952
Type
House, shop
Source
Historic England listing

Description

CHIPPING NORTON HIGH STREET SP 3027-3127 3/24 No 20 (The Playpen) 23.4.52 GV II* House, now shop. Late C14 core, rebuilt circa 1730, altered and refaced in the C20. Ashlar with a gabled slate roof. Two storeys and attic, 3 bays. Moulded cornice, moulded and eared architraves with large keystones to first floor windows linked by band. Two dormers with 2-pane casements, 12-pane sashes to first floor. C20 shop front to ground floor and passage opening to right-hand with pronounced keystone. The undercroft below the ground floor front has late C14 octopartite vaulting with chamfered ribs springing from 4 corbels all carved with faces. The roadside wall, once giving access to the street before the market place was terraced in the late C17, has one 2 cusped light window under a flat head to the N and a similar 1-light window to the S. Two cupboard openings in the E wall.

Listing NGR: SP3139927170

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