Wall and Gatepier Approximately 15 Metres North of the Orchard (Not Included)

WALL AND GATEPIER APPROXIMATELY 15 METRES NORTH OF THE ORCHARD (NOT INCLUDED), THE GREEN

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1046373
Date first listed:
05-May-1988
List Entry Name:
Wall and Gatepier Approximately 15 Metres North of the Orchard (Not Included)
Statutory Address:
WALL AND GATEPIER APPROXIMATELY 15 METRES NORTH OF THE ORCHARD (NOT INCLUDED), THE GREEN

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Date:
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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1046373
Date first listed:
05-May-1988
List Entry Name:
Wall and Gatepier Approximately 15 Metres North of the Orchard (Not Included)
Statutory Address 1:
WALL AND GATEPIER APPROXIMATELY 15 METRES NORTH OF THE ORCHARD (NOT INCLUDED), THE GREEN

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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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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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Location

Statutory Address:
WALL AND GATEPIER APPROXIMATELY 15 METRES NORTH OF THE ORCHARD (NOT INCLUDED), 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 47362 35590

Details

3P4735 ADDERBURY THE GREEN (South side) Adderbury East 7/119 Wall and gatepier approx. 15m N of The Orchard (not included)

GV II Wall and gatepier. Probably late C17. Coursed squared marlstone and limestone ashlar. Wall is approximately 2 metres high with a 3-course triangular coping, and extends approximately 40 metres south-west from the western gatepier to The Orchard to a subsidiary gateway. Square ashlar pier has a chamfered piinth and moulded cornice plus a large ball finial. See "South House plus attached wall and 3 gatepiers" for matching eastern gatepier and wall. The walls and gatepiers belonged to the large C16/C17 mansion of the Cobb family, demolished 1815. (Buildings of England: Oxfordshire: p418)

Listing NGR: SP4736235590

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Legacy System number:
243842
Legacy System:
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Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 418

Legal

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

Ordnance survey map of Wall and Gatepier Approximately 15 Metres North of the Orchard (Not Included)

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