Description

BANBURY SOUTH BAR STREET
SP4550SW (East side)
9/181 No.24 (Austin House)
07/10/69
GV II

Baptist chapel, now offices. 1834 with later alterations. Red brick, hipped
Welsh slate roof, brick end stack. 2 storeys; 3-window range. Central 2-storey
advanced entrance bay has porch with slender columns. Panelled double doors.
Decorated overlight. Single sash above entrance has glazing bars and stone sill.
Ground floor to left and right of porch has sashes with glazing bars, brick flat
arches and stone sills. 2 similar windows to first floor. All windows of 3-pane
width. Basement has sashes with glazing bars. Moulded chamfered cornice. Erected
for Richard Austin (d.1840). The Austin family were prominent brewers and
Baptists in C19 Banbury.
(V.C.H.: Oxfordshire, Vol.X, pp.92 and 116).

Listing NGR: SP4536240190

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26650864

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Recommended Books

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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)