A former high street bank could be converted into town centre flats.

Witney-based D'Oilly Manor Developments plans to convert the former Barclays Bank building at 15 High Street, Chipping Norton, to form two one-bed and two two-bed flats.

The flats would be at the back of the ground floor and on the first and second floors while the ground floor would remain a retail/commercial space.

The Grade II* listed former town house was built around 1780 and the ground floor remodelled in a neo-Georgian style in the 1960s, states the application lodged with West Oxfordshire District Council. 

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"Over the course the 200-plus years of this High Street frontage building on the site it has undergone an number of alterations, particularly the ground floor “shopfront” area," it says.

Barclays Bank, who had been the owner and tenant, closed its doors to banking on the site in June 2023.

"The proposal at this stage to convert the commercial office spaces to residential use are in line with national and local policies while retaining the ground floor commercial space on the important Chipping Norton High Street location," say planning documents.

In listed building terms, the works "have in places beneficial harm by removing 20th century partitions and only slight adverse harm to the significance of the building, one that has been largely altered at stages in the 20th century during its life as a commercial unit," it said.