Great House Close

GREAT HOUSE CLOSE, THE HILL

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1046398
Date first listed:
07-Dec-1966
List Entry Name:
Great House Close
Statutory Address:
GREAT HOUSE CLOSE, THE HILL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1046398
Date first listed:
07-Dec-1966
Date of most recent amendment:
03-Oct-1988
List Entry Name:
Great House Close
Statutory Address 1:
GREAT HOUSE CLOSE, THE HILL

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
GREAT HOUSE CLOSE, THE HILL

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Oxfordshire
District:
Cherwell (District Authority)
Parish:
Souldern
National Grid Reference:
SP 52262 31483

Details

SOULDERN THE HILL SP5231 (South side) 14/103 Great House Close 07/12/66 (Formerly listed as The Hollies)

GV II

Farmhouse, now house. Late C17 with roof raised in C18 and C20 alterations. Limestone ashlar. Raised stone slate roof. Stone-end stacks with renewed stone shafts. Stone coped gable with moulded kneelers and finials. L-plan. 2 storeys plus cellar. 3-window range. Entrance off-centre to right reached by 3 stone steps has 4-panelled door, 4-centred arched stone doorway with moulded chamfered jambs and hood mould and label stops. Entrance is flanked by 4-light stone mullioned windows of ovolo section with hood moulds and label stops. First floor has 2 similar windows and a 2-light renewed window. 2-light stone mullioned cellar window has hood mould and label stops and mullions of ovolo section. Interior: C18 moulded stone fireplace with square head (8'3" wide by 5'3" high). C18 staircase with stick balusters. Said to have late C18 panelling on ground floor. (VCH: Oxfordshire: Vol VI, p302)

Listing NGR: SP5226231483

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
243697
Legacy System:
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Sources

Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1959), 302

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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