Frieze Farmhouse
FRIEZE FARMHOUSE, A 34
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1045789
- Date first listed:
- 25-Sept-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Frieze Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- FRIEZE FARMHOUSE, A 34
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1045789
- Date first listed:
- 25-Sept-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Frieze Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- FRIEZE FARMHOUSE, A 34
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- FRIEZE FARMHOUSE, A 34
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- Cherwell (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Gosford and Water Eaton
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 49498 11412
Details
GOSFORD AND WATER EATON
1712/5/36 A 34 25-SEP-86 PEAR TREE HILL (East side) Frieze Farmhouse
II
Also Known As: FRIES FARM, PEAR TREE HILL Farmhouse with probably late C17 core, successively expanded in the C18 and earlier C19. Irregular L-plan.
MATERIALS: Coursed limestone rubble with squared dressings. Concrete tile roof. Tile-hung early C19 timber-framed bay to left with slate roof.
EXTERIOR: Of two storeys. Original two-unit building with gable chimney (top rebuilt in brick) to left; one- and three-light windows to first floor with flat stone arches. Door, with single-light widows to either side, to centre; earlier blocked door to right. Right gable has two- and three-light windows to first floor, and three-light to ground floor. Several of the windows are leaded and of the C18. Right-hand wing, probably late C18, has three-light segmental-arched casements facing left and two-light facing right, and a gable-end brick chimney. Tile-hung early-mid C19 bay to left has 12-pane sashes with architraves and a fairly shallow hipped slate roof. The single-storey, catslide -roofed range to the rear is of stone and at least two phases, both later than the original building but earlier than the tile-hung range.
INTERIOR: The original chimney retains its internal coarse plaster lining, perhaps original. Internal doors, skirting boards and fittings largely C18 and C19. Right-hand wing has C19 wall cupboards to either side of gable fireplace. Good quality early C20 free-standing oak staircase and landing introduced to the farmhouse from another building. Cellar (not seen) reported under right end of original building.
SUMMARY OF IMPORTANCE: Frieze Farmhouse is a typical example of a modest Oxfordshire vernacular building of the late C17, which between the C18 and C19 was successively enlarged until it became what might be characterised as a typical farmhouse. It has seen little if any later alteration, and retains a good range of original fixtures and fittings.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 243273
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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