COTE HOUSE AND ATTACHED FORECOURT WALLS, GATEPIERS AND GATES

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1284444
Date first listed:: 11-Sep-1955
List Entry Name:: COTE HOUSE AND ATTACHED FORECOURT WALLS, GATEPIERS AND GATES
Statutory Address:: COTE HOUSE AND ATTACHED FORECOURT WALLS, GATEPIERS AND GATES

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1284444
Date first listed:: 11-Sep-1955
Date of most recent amendment:: 16-Oct-1988
List Entry Name:: COTE HOUSE AND ATTACHED FORECOURT WALLS, GATEPIERS AND GATES
Statutory Address 1:: COTE HOUSE AND ATTACHED FORECOURT WALLS, GATEPIERS AND GATES

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: COTE HOUSE AND ATTACHED FORECOURT WALLS, GATEPIERS AND GATES

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Oxfordshire
District:: West Oxfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Aston, Cote, Shifford and Chimney
National Grid Reference:: SP 35525 02303

Details

ASTON BAMPTON AND SHIFFORD COTE SP30SE 10/9 Cote House and attached 12/09/55 forecourt walls, gatepiers and gates (Formerly listed as Cote House, with gatepiers, gates and garden walls)

GV II*

Manor house, now house. Late C16 origins (left wing); mainly early C17 for Sir Thomas Horde; late C17 alterations for Thomas Horde. Coursed limestone rubble, partly rendered, with moulded string courses and ashlar quoins and dressings; gabled stone slate roof with finials; numerous stacks, including very large lateral stack to rear of hall, have diagonally-set ashlar flues with moulded capping. U-plan with parlour and service wings flanking hall. Cross-gabled hall of 2 storeys and attic, 2-window range, has hood mould over blocked door with late C17 lunette to left and central late C17 inserted doorway with pulvinated frieze; early C17 four-light ovolo-moulded stone-mullioned and transomed windows, and similar mullioned attic windows. 2-storey wing to right has similar mullioned and transomed windows to gable ends and 2-window range side walls. Wing of 2 storeys and attic to left has late C16 hollow-chamfered stone-mullioned windows in gable end, also with 4-light ovolo-moulded stone-mullioned window to attic, and in 2-window range right side wall; 2 canted bays with similar windows in left side wall; 2-storey range to rear left has similar mullioned windows and reset head of mid C13 plate-tracery window. Early C17 stair-turret to right side wall, and large stair-turret with one-light windows and pyramidal roof to rear of hall range. Ovolo-moulded stone-mullioned windows to rear. Interior: hall has early C17 ovolo-moulded open fireplace, studded door set in arched ovolo-moulded surround to right, and 2 similar doorways to service wing on left; studded door to stair turret; attic has early C17 moulded stone fireplace. Service range: chamfered beams and C17 panelling; roof not inspected. Parlour range: ovolo-moulded fireplaces in front and rear rooms; early C17 open-well staircase with turned balusters, moulded handrail, and turned penditives and finials; room to rear has late C17 bolection-moulded panelling; roof not inspected. Subsidiary features: late C17 limestone rubble walls enclose forecourt approximately 95 metres x 30 metres; blocked stone piers with moulded plinth and cornice flank front gateways; similar piers with ball finials flank opposing gateway near house and scrolled wrought-iron gates with date 1704 in right side wall. Late C17 cobbled paths intersect the forecourt to connect the gateways. The stonework throughout is carved with mason's marks. The Horde family bought the Manor in 1553. (Arthur Oswald, "Coate House, Bampton, Oxfordshire", June 1946, pp.1176-1179; National Monuments Record; Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, pp.557-8).

Listing NGR: SP3552502303

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 252080
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Oswald, A, Coate House Bampton Oxfordshire, (1946), 1176-1179
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 557-8

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.