WILLOW COTTAGE

Willow Cottage, Wendlebury, Bicester, OX25 2PW

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1046519
Date first listed:: 10-Apr-1987
List Entry Name:: WILLOW COTTAGE
Statutory Address:: Willow Cottage, Wendlebury, Bicester, OX25 2PW

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1046519
Date first listed:: 10-Apr-1987
List Entry Name:: WILLOW COTTAGE
Statutory Address 1:: Willow Cottage, Wendlebury, Bicester, OX25 2PW

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: Willow Cottage, Wendlebury, Bicester, OX25 2PW

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Oxfordshire
District:: Cherwell (District Authority)
Parish:: Wendlebury
National Grid Reference:: SP5609719641

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 09/01/2015

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WENDLEBURY, Willow Cottage

(Formerly listed as Brookside Cottage, MAIN STREET (West side))

II

Small house. Early/mid C17 and C20. Coursed limestone rubble with wooden lintels; Welsh-slate roof with rebuilt brick gable stack. Single-unit plan, enlarged. 2 storeys plus attic. Front of earlier section has renewed 2-light casements at ground and first floors plus a C20 dormer. Left gable wall has a massive rubble chimney projection with sloping offsets, and has a small window with an old chamfered frame. C20 bay projects to right. Interior: ground floor has a large open fireplace with stop-chamfered bressumer, and has heavy stop-chamfered beam and joists, fully marked with assembly numbers: first floor has a chamber fireplace with cambered stop-chamfered bressumer, plus bean and joists of similar but slighter pattern; all joists have soffit tenons with diminished haunches; winder stair to attic; some old plank doors. The C20 bay replaced an earlier cottage which at some stage, way have been linked with the surviving structure.

Listing NGR: SP5609719641

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 243383
Legacy System:: LBS

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.