Cottisford House
COTTISFORD HOUSE, MAIN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1046437
- Date first listed:
- 26-Nov-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Cottisford House
- Statutory Address:
- COTTISFORD HOUSE, MAIN STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1046437
- Date first listed:
- 26-Nov-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Cottisford House
- Statutory Address 1:
- COTTISFORD 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:
- COTTISFORD 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:
- Cottisford
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 58785 31110
Details
COTTISFORD MAIN STREET SP5831 (North side) 15/2 Cottisford House 26/11/51
GV II
House. c.1700 with alterations and additions c.1830 by William Turner. Restoration following fire c.1930. Squared, coursed limestone. Hipped old-tile roof. Stone ridge and end stacks. Double-depth plan. 2 storeys plus attic. 3-window range. Central entrance reached via stone steps has panelled/glazed door in broken segmental door-case. Entrance is flanked by tall, narrow sashes with glazing bars and stone surround. 3 similar first floor windows. Dentilled wood eaves cornice. Hipped roof dormers. Lower early C19 wing abuts to left. Similar wing on right now demolished. West elevation. Double-depth plan with hipped M-shaped roof. 2 storeys. 3-window range. Central entrance has panelled door, semi-circular fanlight and open-pedimented wood door-case. Entrance is flanked by sashes in flush wood frames with glazing bars and keyblock lintels. 3 similar first floor windows, the central window under a Flemish style stone gable. 3-window range on south return. Built c.1700 for Laurence Lord, a tenant of Eton College who were Lords of Cottisford from 1442 to the end of the C19. Interior has C18 and C19 style fittings. (Buildings of England: Oxfordshire: 1974, p559; VCH: Oxfordshire: Vol VI, p105; Blomfield, J.C.: History of Cottisford in History of the Present Deanery of Bicester, 1887, part 3, pp22-3)
Listing NGR: SP5878531110
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 243594
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1959), 105
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 559
Blomfield, JC, History of the Present Deanery of Bicester Oxfordshire, (1887), 22-23
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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