The Hermitage and Attached Lock Up
THE HERMITAGE AND ATTACHED LOCK UP, 17 AND 17A, LONDON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1046494
- Date first listed:
- 31-Jan-1952
- List Entry Name:
- The Hermitage and Attached Lock Up
- Statutory Address:
- THE HERMITAGE AND ATTACHED LOCK UP, 17 AND 17A, LONDON ROAD
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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/08475/17
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1046494
- Date first listed:
- 31-Jan-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 20-Jan-1988
- List Entry Name:
- The Hermitage and Attached Lock Up
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE HERMITAGE AND ATTACHED LOCK UP, 17 AND 17A, LONDON 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:
- THE HERMITAGE AND ATTACHED LOCK UP, 17 AND 17A, LONDON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- Cherwell (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Bicester
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 58677 22242
Details
BICESTER LONDON ROAD SP5822S (East side) 3/57 No.17 (The Hermitage) and 31/01/52 No.17A and attached lock-up (Formerly listed as No. 17 (The Hermitage) GV II
House, now 2 dwellings. Late C17/early C18. Coursed limestone rubble with some stucco dressings; plain-tile roof with brick stacks. 3-unit plan, subdivided. 2 storeys plus attics. 5-window front has a regular arrangement of tall 3-light casements, all with painted moulded architraves and most with old casements; doors have been inserted between bays one and 2 and bays 4 and 5. Roof has 5 renewed roof dormers and 3 stacks. Rear has tall casements, probably originally cross windows, and has a gabled stair projection. Interiors not inspected. Former lock-up. Probably C18/early C19. Limestone rubble with Welsh-slate roof. Apsidal plan built against left gable wall of No.17. Ribbed door to rear. Half-conical roof has a square apex louvre. Interior: stone-vaulted ceiling with a barred shaft to the louvre. Now an outbuilding in the garden of No. 15 (Gaol Cottage) (not included). (V.C.H.: Oxfordshire, Vol.VI, p.18).
Listing NGR: SP5867722246
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 243531
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1959), 18
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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