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Latitude: 51.7885 / 51°47'18"N
Longitude: -1.4828 / 1°28'58"W
OS Eastings: 435768
OS Northings: 210110
OS Grid: SP357101
Mapcode National: GBR 6VL.XLB
Mapcode Global: VHC02.79YS
Plus Code: 9C3WQGQ8+CV
Entry Name: Blanket Hall
Listing Date: 14 May 1952
Grade: II*
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1212999
English Heritage Legacy ID: 397507
ID on this website: 101212999
Location: Witney, West Oxfordshire, OX28
County: Oxfordshire
District: West Oxfordshire
Civil Parish: Witney
Built-Up Area: Witney
Traditional County: Oxfordshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Oxfordshire
Church of England Parish: Witney
Church of England Diocese: Oxford
Tagged with: House
WITNEY HIGH STREET
SP3510SE (East side )
9/147 No.100 (Blanket Hall)
14/05/52
GV II*
Blanket hall. Built 1721: panel with arms of Witney Company of Weavers reads
"Robert Collier Master 1721". Limestone ashlar; gabled roof; lateral stack of
stone finished in brick. Provincial Baroque style. 2 storeys; symmetrical
3-window range. Raised and segmental -headed keyed architrave to plank double
doors set in heavy wood frame with overlights. Similar architraves to 9-pane
sashes and 12-pane sash above door, all with thick glazing bars. Raised storey
band and quoin strips; ball finials with gadrooned bases to corners and
surmounting open pediment. Pediment has half-H apron blocks beneath cornice and
clock in tympanum above arms of the Witney Company of Weavers. Roof surmounted
by fine wood bell turret with cupola. Rear: 2 similar sashes and round-arched
doorway. Remodelled C18 range to rear, of coursed limestone rubble with gabled
artificial stone slate roof. Interior: C18 panelled doors. Partial inspection
only. The Witney Blanket Weavers Company was chartered in 1711: blankets were
brought here for weighing and measuring.
(Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, p.846; N. Lloyd, History of the English
House, 1931, fig.227; National Monuments Record).
Listing NGR: SP3576810110
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