Bee Hive Cottage Bee Hive Veterinary Surgery Garage and Entrance to Placketts
BEE HIVE COTTAGE, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1046382
- Date first listed:
- 08-Dec-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Bee Hive Cottage Bee Hive Veterinary Surgery Garage and Entrance to Placketts
- Statutory Address:
- BEE HIVE COTTAGE, HIGH STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1046382
- Date first listed:
- 08-Dec-1955
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 05-May-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Bee Hive Cottage Bee Hive Veterinary Surgery Garage and Entrance to Placketts
- Statutory Address 1:
- BEE HIVE COTTAGE, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- BEE HIVE VETERINARY SURGERY, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 3:
- GARAGE AND ENTRANCE TO PLACKETTS, HIGH STREET
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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:
- BEE HIVE COTTAGE, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- BEE HIVE VETERINARY SURGERY, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- GARAGE AND ENTRANCE TO PLACKETTS, HIGH STREET
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 47175 35452
Details
SP4735 ADDERBURY HIGH STREET (East side) Adderbury East 7/39 Bee-hive Veterinary Surgery, 08/12/55 Bee-hive Cottage, and garage and entrance to Placketts (Formerly listed as Cottage approx. 35 yds N of Moorey House, and Cottage approx. 25 yds N of Moorey House)
GV II 2 houses. Probably C17 incorporating a medieval window, altered C18 and C19. Coursed squared marlstone with wooden lintels; thatch and concrete plain-tile roofs with stone-and-brick stacks. Single-unit and 2-unit plans plus carriage entries in a single range. 2 storeys. 5-window range has original carriage entries in bay 2 and between bays 4 and 5, now with later lower lintels and double doors, and has an inserted garage door in bay one; first-floor windows in bays one and 2 are leaded 3-light casements, the latter forming a dormer over the entry to Placketts (q.v.). Bee-hive Cottage (bays 3 and 4) has 3-light wooden casements, one with a stone segmental arch to left of which is the doorway; bay 4 has 2 cellar windows: one a 2-light stone-mullioned window; the other a re-used medieval window of 2 pointed lights under an enclosing arch. The surgery, to extreme right, has a tiled roof, raised at the front, and includes a 4-light shop window and a 3-light first-floor casement. Steep-pitched roof has a stone-based ridge stack betweeen bays 3 and 4 and a brick stack on the right gable. Rear of Bee-hive Cottage has a gabled stair projection. Interiors: central stack in Bee-hive Cottage has a large open fireplace with a chamfered bressumer. At one stage the range was The Beehive Public House. (Buildings of England: Oxfordshire: p418)
Listing NGR: SP4717535452
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 243761
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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.
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