Foxtownsend Farmhouse Foxtownsend Flat
FOXTOWNSEND FARMHOUSE, HEYFORD ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1046500
- Date first listed:
- 26-Nov-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Foxtownsend Farmhouse Foxtownsend Flat
- Statutory Address:
- FOXTOWNSEND FARMHOUSE, HEYFORD ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1046500
- Date first listed:
- 26-Nov-1951
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 09-Dec-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Foxtownsend Farmhouse Foxtownsend Flat
- Statutory Address 1:
- FOXTOWNSEND FARMHOUSE, HEYFORD ROAD
- Statutory Address 2:
- FOXTOWNSEND FLAT, HEYFORD 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:
- FOXTOWNSEND FARMHOUSE, HEYFORD ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- FOXTOWNSEND FLAT, HEYFORD ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- Cherwell (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Kirtlington
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 50011 20157
Details
SP5020 KIRTLINGTON HEYFORD ROAD (West side)
15/57 Foxtownsend Farmhouse and 26/11/51 Foxtownsend Flat (Formerly listed as Foxstowns End Farmhouse)
GV II
Farmhouse, now house. Early C17, altered and extended C18. Limestone rubble with squared quoins and wooden lintels; Stonesfield-slate and Welsh-slate roofs. L-plan with subsidiary wings. 2 storeys plus attic and storeys. 2-window front of main range has a central doorway between tripartite sashes and has 12-pane sashes at first floor. Right gable has a leaded attic casement. Roof has rubble stacks to both gables. 2-window C18 service range, to right, is lower with a slate roof and has 2-light casements. Rear wing, returning on left, is as tall as the main range and has a deep plinth, a stone gable parapet to rear, and a further gable facing left from which rises a large rubble stack. Interior: wide ovolo-moulded 4-centre arched stone fireplace with rectangular surround; fine oak dog-leg stair, rising to attics, with moulded handrail, heavy turned balusters, and ball finials; intersecting beams. (V.C.H.: 0xfordshire, Vol.VI, p.220).
Listing NGR: SP5001120157
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 243442
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1959), 220
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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