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Watlington Branch Library

A Grade II Listed Building in Watlington, Oxfordshire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.6455 / 51°38'43"N

Longitude: -1.0064 / 1°0'23"W

OS Eastings: 468844

OS Northings: 194540

OS Grid: SU688945

Mapcode National: GBR B1Y.Y2N

Mapcode Global: VHDVT.HWTZ

Plus Code: 9C3WJXWV+5C

Entry Name: Watlington Branch Library

Listing Date: 11 December 1985

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1369014

English Heritage Legacy ID: 247666

ID on this website: 101369014

Location: Watlington, South Oxfordshire, OX49

County: Oxfordshire

District: South Oxfordshire

Civil Parish: Watlington

Built-Up Area: Watlington

Traditional County: Oxfordshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Oxfordshire

Church of England Parish: Watlington

Church of England Diocese: Oxford

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Description


WATLINGTON HIGH STREET
SU6894 (South side)
6/194 Nos.33 and 35 (Watlington
Branch Library)

GV II

House, now library and flat. Mid/late C16, remodelled in mid C19. Originally
timber-framed. Front of mid C19 Flemish bond brick with flared headers; rest of
flint rubble with brick dressings; gabled old tile roof; brick left end stack.
3-unit plan. 2-storeys; 3-window range. Flat gauged brick arches over mid C19
four-panelled door with overlight and mid C19 horned sashes to left; mid C19
shop front with C20 door to right; timber lintels over first-floor mid C19
horned sashes. Dentilled eaves. C18 two-storey wing of brick to rear left.
Interior: ground floor has quartered cased beams, one chamfered: first floor
open to 3-bay queen-post roof with curved windbraces and clasped purlins.
Two-storey stuccoed bay to right has mid C19 horned sash over horizontal sliding
sash and mid C19 two-panelled door: C16 chamfered arch-braced collar truss.


Listing NGR: SU6884894539

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