Cross Hill House
CROSS HILL HOUSE, CROSS HILL ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1046411
- Date first listed:
- 08-Dec-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Cross Hill House
- Statutory Address:
- CROSS HILL HOUSE, CROSS HILL ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1046411
- Date first listed:
- 08-Dec-1955
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 05-May-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Cross Hill House
- Statutory Address 1:
- CROSS HILL HOUSE, CROSS HILL ROAD
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:
- CROSS HILL HOUSE, CROSS HILL ROAD
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 46632 35522
Details
SP4635 ADDERBURY CROSS HILL R0AD (North side) Adderbury West 6/16 Cross Hill House 08/12/55 (Formerly listed as Cross Hill House, Bloxham Road)
GV II* Large house. Mid C18, probably incorporating earlier features; altered early C19. Marlstone ashlar with limestone dressings. Welsh-slate roofs with ashlar gable stacks. Double-depth plan. Mid-Georgian style. 3 storeys. Symmetrical 7-window front, with full-height clasping pilasters linked by storeybands and a parapet with moulded cornice, has 12-pane sashes with projecting keyblocks, and a central doorway with flanking pilasters supporting a scrolled pediment enclosing a cartouche. The front is considerably wider than the house and breaks back to double-gabled end walls, the right side with an early-C19 stone Tuscan porch. All gables have triple-shafted stacks with moulded plinths and caps. Rear has stone-mullioned cellar windows with labels. Interior not inspected but noted as having early moulded doorframes in the cellar, mid-C18 panelling in a first-floor room, and other fittings of c.1800, (Buildings of England: Oxfordshire: p419; VCH: Oxfordshire: Vol IX, p12; Country Life: Vol 105, 1949, p86)
Listing NGR: SP4663235522
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 243738
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1969), 12
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 419
Country Life in Country Life, Vol. 105, (1949), 86
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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