The Beeches
THE BEECHES, 1
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1046834
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jan-1981
- List Entry Name:
- The Beeches
- Statutory Address:
- THE BEECHES, 1
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1046834
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jan-1981
- List Entry Name:
- The Beeches
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE BEECHES, 1
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 BEECHES, 1
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- Cherwell (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Shenington with Alkerton
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 37681 42836
Details
SHENINGTON WITH ALKERTON ALKERTON SP 3642-3742 7/54 No.1 (The Beeches) 28/01/81 GV II* Cottage. Datestone JE/1716 over door. Coursed ironstone rubble. Steeply pitched thatched roof. Brick end stack on stone base. 2-unit plan. Single storey plus attic. 2-window range. Entrance on right end has plank door, moulded wood frame and datestone above. 2-light wood casement with wood lintel to attic. Elevation to road has thatched staircase projection on left and a 2-light wood mullioned window with a stop-chamfered wood lintel on right. Rear. Bread oven bulge on left with thatched continuous covering from roof. 2-light wood casement with stone lintel and C20 door and window with wood lintel. Two half-dormers have 2-light metal casements in wood frames. Wrought-iron casement fasteners and wood lintels. Interior. Original 2-unit plan survives with kitchen, parlour and pantry. Inglenook fireplace with bread oven and chamfered bressumer. Wood spiral staircase with plank door. Stop-chamfered beam. Datestone probably to John Edwards, village mason, who married in 1716. His father owned The Bell Inn, Shenington. A notable dated example of a lesser vernacular dwelling with surviving plan and interior details. Once known as Homestead Cottage. (Wood-Jones, p194 and fig. 54; VCH: Oxfordshire: Vol IX, p44; Register of births, deaths and marriages for 1716 in Bodleian Library, Oxford)
Listing NGR: SP3767942836
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 244610
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1969), 44
Wood-Jones, R B, Traditional Domestic Architecture in the Banbury Region, (1963), 194
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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