Hethe House
HETHE HOUSE, MAIN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1046414
- Date first listed:
- 18-Dec-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Hethe House
- Statutory Address:
- HETHE HOUSE, MAIN STREET
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- Reference:
- IOE01/03581/03
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1046414
- Date first listed:
- 18-Dec-1986
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 03-Oct-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Hethe House
- Statutory Address 1:
- HETHE HOUSE, MAIN STREET
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:
- HETHE HOUSE, MAIN STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- Cherwell (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Hethe
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 59304 29416
Details
HETHE MAIN STREET (Southside) SP5829-5929 17/48 Hethe House 18/12/86 Formerly listed as The Dower House) GV II House. Late C18 with C19 additions, Coursed limestone rubble. Hipped slate roof. Brick end stacks. Double-depth plan, 3 storeys. 5-window range. Central entrance has 6-panelled door, moulded wood frame with console brackets and overlight with geometrically patterned glazing bars. Entrance is flanked by 12-pane and 16-pane sash windows with stucco surrounds linked between the storeys. First and second floors each have 5 sash windows with glazing bars. Unhorned sashes throughout. Garden front to rear noted. as having 2 storey, 3-window range; central double-leaved panelled-glazed door, overlight within doorcase with shallow brackets and cornice; the overlight has an elaborate fan pattern of glazing. Tripartite sashes flank door, those to ground floor are 8-pane, to first floor 20-pane; central 12-pane sash; all windows with stucco surrounds linked between the storeys; all sashes unhorned; brick lateral stack to centre left. Said to have been the Dower House of Shelswell Park in the C18. VCH: Oxfordshire: Vol V1, p147
Listing NGR: SP5930429416
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 243641
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1959), 174
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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