Grandpont House Oxford, England
Listed Building Data
Grandpont House has been designated a Grade II* listed building in England with the following information, which has been imported from the National Heritage List for England. Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.
- List Entry ID
- 1299941
- Listing Type
- listed building
- Grade
- II*
- Date Listed
- 12 January 1954
- Name
- GRANDPONT HOUSE
- Location
- GRANDPONT HOUSE, ABINGDON ROAD
- District
- Oxford
- County
- Oxfordshire
- Grid Reference
- SP 51503 05450
- Easting
- 451503.0000
- Northing
- 205450.0000
Listed Building Description
Text courtesy of Historic England. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
ABINGDON ROAD 1. 1485 (East Side) Grandpont House SP 50 NW 24/605 12.1.54. II* 2. Built circa 1785 for Elias Taunton. 3 storeyed stuccoed brick with a moulded cornice and parapet and bands at the lst and 2nd floors. The side stacks are stuccoed. L-shaped plan with a North West wing projecting on the back. The East elevation, facing the river, has 2 3-storeyed 3-sided bays with tall sash windows. In between the bays is a doorway with a late C18 semi-circular fanlight; above this in the 1st floor is a tall Venetian window and above that a 3-light sash window. The North-West wing has a 3-storeyed stuccoed front with a Welsh slate hipped roof and sash windows. The North sides of the main block and of the North-West wing are in red brick and the windows in the wing are blind. The house is constructed on a 2-arched stone bridge and there was once a mill here.
Listing NGR: SP5150305450
