Duke of Cumberlands Head Public House

DUKE OF CUMBERLANDS HEAD PUBLIC HOUSE, B4031

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1046340
Date first listed:
05-May-1988
List Entry Name:
Duke of Cumberlands Head Public House
Statutory Address:
DUKE OF CUMBERLANDS HEAD PUBLIC HOUSE, B4031

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1046340
Date first listed:
05-May-1988
List Entry Name:
Duke of Cumberlands Head Public House
Statutory Address 1:
DUKE OF CUMBERLANDS HEAD PUBLIC HOUSE, B4031

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
DUKE OF CUMBERLANDS HEAD PUBLIC HOUSE, B4031

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 49023 31812

Details

SP43SE DEDDINGTON B4031 (North side) Clifton 3/133 Duke of Cumberland's Head Public House

GV II Public house. Probbly Cl7, re-modelled and/or enlarged early C18. Coursed squared marlstone with wooden lintels; thatch and Welsh-slate roofs with brick ridge stacks. 3-unit outshut plan, probably with cross passage, and with added rear wing. 2 storeys. 4-window front, in 2 or 3 builds, has wide windows in bays one and 2, one of which retains a 3-light C19 casement; bays 3 and 4 have smaller renewed casements at first floor plus a C19/C20 canted bay window to right. Entrance in bay 3 is concealed by a C20 wooden porch; secondary entrance with plank door to right of bay 4. Stacks flank bay 2. Lower slated outbuilding range to left is now part of the accommodation and includes a vehicular entry to extreme left. Rear wing, returning from right of main range is probably mostly C20 but incorporates an earlier range. Interior: large inglenook fireplace with chamfered bressumer; stop-chamfered spine beam. Recorded as a public house since 1774. Included for group value. (VCH: Oxfordshire: Vol XI, p88)

Listing NGR: SP4902331812

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
243857
Legacy System:
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Sources

Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1969), 88

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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