Plough House the Steps
PLOUGH HOUSE, NEW STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1046329
- Date first listed:
- 08-Dec-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Plough House the Steps
- Statutory Address:
- PLOUGH HOUSE, NEW STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1046329
- Date first listed:
- 08-Dec-1955
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 05-May-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Plough House the Steps
- Statutory Address 1:
- PLOUGH HOUSE, NEW STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- THE STEPS, NEW STREET
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:
- PLOUGH HOUSE, NEW STREET
- Statutory Address:
- THE STEPS, NEW STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- Cherwell (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Deddington
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 46750 31306
Details
SP4631 DEDDINGTON NEW STREET (East side) 8/210 Plough House and The Steps 08/12/55 (Formerly listed as House [formerly The Plough Inn]) GV II* Inn, now 2 dwellings. Mid C17, incorporating late-C14/C15 features. Coursed squared marlstone with some ashlar dressings and some wooden lintels; concrete plain-tile roof with brick stacks. 3-unit through-passage plan, now sub-divided. 2 storeys plus attic, partly raised over a semi-basement. Left half of 4-window front has 3-light C18/early C19 casements to both floors, except in bay one where an inserted entrance to The Steps has necessitated a reduction to 2 lights. High chamfered plinth contains a cellar window with a moulded stone surround and a larger window, formerly a sunken doorway. Right half also has a moulded string which steps up over a tall 3-light casement retaining traces of a much wider stone-mullioned window. Doorway to left is probably a C18 insertion; earlier doorway to right, with chamfered stone surround, is now a window. First floor has two 4-light stone-mullioned windows with labels. Steep-pitched roof has a gable parapet to left, with projecting moulded kneelers, and has stacks to right of bay one and to right gable. Interior: C17 spine beams at ground and first floors with double-ovolo-mouldings; large C17 Tudor-arched stone fireplace with ovolo moulding; early-C18 stone bolection-mould fireplace with moulded mantel and panelled overmantel. A roof truss in The Steps, set against the left gable, may be medieval and has a strutted post between tiebeam and collar. The semi-basement below The Steps, approached from the cellar beneath Plough House, is a fine 2-bay late-C14/C15 vaulted room, with deep chamfered ribs and tiercerons springing from wall shafts with moulded octagonal bases and capitals; the wall facing the road (now mostly below ground) has the remains of a moulded doorway flanked by blocked traceried windows. It could be the ground floor of a small medieval house, but might be a solar undercroft adjoining a hall, now represented by Plough House; part of a service bay may survive in Mallards (q.v.). The building was an inn by 1774. (Buildings of England: Oxfordshire: p572; VCH: Oxfordshire: Vol XI, p86)
Listing NGR: SP4675031306
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 243936
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1983), 86
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 572
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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