Adderbury House
ADDERBURY HOUSE, THE GREEN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1046370
- Date first listed:
- 08-Dec-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Adderbury House
- Statutory Address:
- ADDERBURY HOUSE, THE GREEN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1046370
- Date first listed:
- 08-Dec-1955
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 05-May-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Adderbury House
- Statutory Address 1:
- ADDERBURY HOUSE, THE GREEN
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:
- ADDERBURY HOUSE, THE GREEN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- Cherwell (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Adderbury
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 47633 35639
Details
SP4735 ADDERBURY THE GREEN (East side) Adderbury East 7/113 Adderbury House 08/12/55 (Formerly listed as Adderbury House with outbuildings and gateway) GV II Large house incorporating parts of a mansion, now an old people's home. C17 house of Earls of Rochester remodelled probably 1722 for Duke of Argyll; enlarged probably 1731 by Roger Morris; altered for Duke of Buccleuch in 1768, probably by sir William Chambers; mostly demolished 1808; re-modelled and enlarged 1891 for J.W. Larnach. Marlstone ashlar; Stonesfield-slate roofs with ashlar stacks. Courtyard plan. Baroque style. 3 storeys. 6-window south front, now the entrance front, with plinth, second-floor storey band and a plain parapet rising from a similar band, breaks forward in the 2 middle bays below a triangular pediment containing a blind occulus; sashes have semi-circular heads at ground and first floors, and have segmental heads at second floor. The central doorway also has a semi-circlular head, and it and 2 flanking windows are sheltered by a late-C19 stone portico with 4 ionic columns and a heavy entablature. The outer bays are probably of 1722, the date inscribed on 2 very fine lead rainwater heads in the form of triangular consoles with scrolled lugs. Return walls both have plainer lead heads dated 1750, and on the west is a head bearing the Argyll crest and a date noted as 1724 but now obscured by an iron band. 4-window late-C19 east and west ranges, with similar windows, are set back but project a bay either side of the main range; both have parapets which break into central pediments. East range probably incorporates some walling from the earlier building. Single-storey kitchen range stands on a plinth containing the cellars of the early-C18 north range, originally forming the left side of a 3-sided courtyard. The inner faces of the north and south ranges both retain some early walling. All ranges have hipped roofs. Interior: south range retains some C18 egg-and-dart architraves, a Rococo plaster ceiling in a first-floor room, several small C18 fireplaces and the upper flights of an apsidal late-C18 stair with stick balusters and a mahogany handrail; the fine cellars below the north wing have depressed-arched stone vaults springing from square imposts, and are 3 bays wide by at least 7 bays long. (Buildings of England: Oxfordshire: pp416-418; VCH: Oxfordshire: Vol IX, pp7-9; Country Life 1949, Vol 105, pp30-32)
Listing NGR: SP4763335639
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 243836
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1969), 7-9
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 416-418
Country Life in Country Life, Vol. 105, (1949), 30-32
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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