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Gunfield

A Grade II Listed Building in Oxford, Oxfordshire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.7642 / 51°45'51"N

Longitude: -1.2547 / 1°15'17"W

OS Eastings: 451528

OS Northings: 207544

OS Grid: SP515075

Mapcode National: GBR 8YY.7MJ

Mapcode Global: VHCXN.6XJF

Plus Code: 9C3WQP7W+M4

Entry Name: Gunfield

Listing Date: 8 September 1992

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1047043

English Heritage Legacy ID: 245987

Also known as: 19 Norham Gardens

ID on this website: 101047043

Location: Park Town, Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX2

County: Oxfordshire

District: Oxford

Electoral Ward/Division: North

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Oxford

Traditional County: Oxfordshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Oxfordshire

Church of England Parish: Oxford St Andrew

Church of England Diocese: Oxford

Tagged with: Building Gothic Revival

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Description


OXFORD
NORHAM GARDENS
SP 50 NW
24/10002 No 19 (Gunfield)
- II
Large detached house with former chapel (later used as a music room)
linked by a passageway. 1877 by Frederick Codd. Chapel added 1909 by
N.W. & G.A. Harrison for St. Hugh's Hall; linking passageway 1915 by
Arthur Hamilton Moberly for the Denekes family. Porch and 3-storey
loggia on garden front also by Moberly. Red brick with stone
dressings and floor bands, and blue brick bands. Tiled roof with tall
gables to bays and tall brick chimney stacks, those to returns rising
from ground level. Central bay rises to a small tower with pyramidal
roof having a cast iron finial. Gothick style. 2 storeys, attic and
semi-basement. 6 windows. Front of 2 gabled outer bays with grouped
pointed-arch sashes, 3 to right and 2 to left with central colonette.
Stepped to ground floor right. Entrance on right hand return with
gabled timber porch approached by steps. Garden front of 2 gabled
bays; right hand has canted bay through ground and 1st floor, central
windows with colonette mullions, and cast iron balcony to paired
pointed arch attic windows with colonette. Left hand bay has
projecting timber and brick loggia; ground floor open on 2 sides with
tiled roof supporting a smaller timber framed and herringbone
brickwork 1st floor balcony with chamfered beam; glazing probably
later (this may have been a sleeping balcony). Tiled roof with
overhanging eaves supporting an openwork timber balustrade to a roof
terrace approached by flat-arched attic doorway. Interior retains
many original features including cornices and skirting boards. Open
well staircase has curiously low-level balustrade of turned balusters
with moulded handrail and carved lion finial to newel. Gothick stone
chimneypiece in stair hall. Ground floor Gothick doors with chamfered
panel rails. Two main reception rooms converted to one with 2 column
screen having moulded frame in simple Art Deco style; believed to be
by Moberly. Each of these rooms with an C18 style chimneypiece. The
original entrance bell in elaborate cast and wrought iron crenellated
housing with long pull enriched with wrought iron flora and foliage
and open-work pendant has been repositioned inside the hall. External
passageway to the former chapel of 2 storeys, the top tile-hung with
2-light windows, and tiled roof. Ground floor open to front with good
cast and wrought iron lantern with coloured glass diamond panes and
scrolled wrought iron bracket. F mer chapel of brick with pitched
tiled roof. Single storey. 4 bays, each buttressed with tiled off-
sets. 4-light transom and mullion windows with small leaded panes;
eastern window with cusped tracery head. Interior has well detailed
open arch-braced timber roof, fireplace, parquet floor and western
gallery.


Listing NGR: SP5152807544

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