ELTON HOUSE ROOKERY NOOK THE ROOKERY

ELTON HOUSE, THE GREEN

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1046374
Date first listed:: 08-Dec-1955
List Entry Name:: ELTON HOUSE ROOKERY NOOK THE ROOKERY
Statutory Address:: ELTON HOUSE, THE GREEN

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1046374
Date first listed:: 08-Dec-1955
Date of most recent amendment:: 05-May-1988
List Entry Name:: ELTON HOUSE ROOKERY NOOK THE ROOKERY
Statutory Address 1:: ELTON HOUSE, THE GREEN
Statutory Address 2:: ROOKERY NOOK, THE GREEN
Statutory Address 3:: THE ROOKERY, THE GREEN

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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:: ELTON HOUSE, THE GREEN
Statutory Address:: ROOKERY NOOK, THE GREEN
Statutory Address:: THE ROOKERY, THE GREEN

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County:: Oxfordshire
District:: Cherwell (District Authority)
Parish:: Adderbury
National Grid Reference:: SP 47310 35580

Details

SP4735 ADDERBURY THE GREEN (South side) Adderbury East 7/l20 The Rookery, Elton House and 08/12/55 Rookery Nook (Formerly listed as The Rookery)

GV II Substantial house. 1656 on datestone, restored and extended C19/early C20. Coursed squared marlstone with ashlar dressings; Stonesfield-slate roofs with ashlar stacks. L-plan with complex extensions. 2 storeys plus attic. Main range has a symmetrical 5-gabled front, the middle bay projecting as a porch entered by a Tudor-arched doorway with recessed spandrels and a label, and sheltering a plainer Tudor-arched doorway; the large 3- and 4-light stone-mullioned windows with transoms at ground and first floors are restorations, but the 2-light mullioned gable windows are at least partly C17. The main part of the rear wing, returning on the right, has two 3-light stone-mullioned windows at ground and first floors, and has 2-light mullioned windows in the main gable and in a stone gable to right of it; all, like the front windows, have lattice glazing and labels; but they are probably C17. The gables all have parapets with projecting moulded kneelers, and the porch gable bears a stone finial and contains the datestone. A chamfered plinth containing mullioned cellar windows continues to a lower 7-window section of the rear wing which has, at ground floor, ovolo-moulded stone-mullioned windows of 2 and 3 lights, probably lowered but partly C17, but at first floor has C19 mullioned windows in contemporary half-dormer gables; a single-storey range beyond it (Rookery Nook), also with the same plinth, is probably also partly C17 but has three 2-light C19 mullioned windows plus plain openings to rear. Complex extensions to left of main range (Elton House) are in similar stone-mullioned and gabled style, but are irregular and have flat-roofed front projections with stone-balustraded parapets; the range is mostly early-C20, but it incorporates a Cl7 range of which some ovolo-moulded mullioned windows at the rear may form part. The rear of The Rookery appears to retain little original work and is largely masked by early c20 extensions. Interior: The Rookery has some stop-chamfered beams, a Tudor-arched chamfered stone fireplace (probably re-set) and 2 fragmentary drawings on plaster. Elton House has a similar fireplace plus a fine moulded Tudor-arched fireplace with recessed spandrels (both probably re-used). Alterations of 1912 are by A.C. Martin of London. (Buildings of England: Oxfordshire: p418; VCH: Oxfordshire: Vol IX, p10; Country Life 1949, Vol 105, p33)

Listing NGR: SP4731035580

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Legacy System number:: 243843
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 418
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1969), 10
'Country Life' in Country Life, , Vol. 105, (1949), 33

Legal

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