Corn Exchange is a Grade II listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 February 1970. A Victorian Office. 2 related planning applications.
Corn Exchange
- WRENN ID
- mired-hammer-aspen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Oxfordshire
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 February 1970
- Type
- Office
- Period
- Victorian
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
WITNEY MARKET SQUARE SP3509N (East side) 10/178 Corn Exchanq 06/02/70 GV II
Corn Exchange, now offices. Built 1863. Squared and coursed limestone, with rusticated pilaster strips and dressings; gabled Welsh-slate roof; stone end stacks. Italian Classical style. 2 storeys; symmetrical 3-window range. Semi-circular arched doorway with rusticated surrounds to panelled double-leaf doors; balcony above supported by 2 huge brackets with carved flower swags. Door flanked by tripartite plate-glass sashes with rusticated segmental-arched architraves. First-floor cross-windows set in moulded stone architraves with bracketed cornices and central segmental pediment. Modillioned stone cornice beneath low parapet. Consoles flank central open-pedimented gable with ball finials and lunette. Keyed raised architraves to right side wall and long rear wing of one-storey, 5-window range, interior: mid C19 stairs, dado in room to left, and braced queen-post roof in first-floor chamber. (Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, p.846).
Listing NGR: SP3564109638
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