Withycombe Farmhouse and Attached Stable
WITHYCOMBE FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED STABLE, STRATFORD ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1046858
- Date first listed:
- 20-Sept-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Withycombe Farmhouse and Attached Stable
- Statutory Address:
- WITHYCOMBE FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED STABLE, STRATFORD ROAD
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1046858
- Date first listed:
- 20-Sept-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Withycombe Farmhouse and Attached Stable
- Statutory Address 1:
- WITHYCOMBE FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED STABLE, STRATFORD 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:
- WITHYCOMBE FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED STABLE, STRATFORD ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- Cherwell (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Drayton
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 43318 40221
Details
DRAYTON STRATFORD ROAD SP 44 SW (South side) 3/8 Withycombe Farmhouse and attached stable. II Farmhouse. Early to mid C17 with later alterations. Garden front. Ironstone ashlar on right, squared coursed ironstone on left. Steeply pitched C20-tile roof. Coped stone gables. Stone ridge and end stacks, the two end stacks having renewed brick shafts. 3-unit plan altogether. 2 storeys plus attics and cellars. 5-window range. Right part has central entrance with C20 door and stone architrave. Entrance is flanked by pairs of 2-light flat faced mullioned windows with metal casements and wrought-iron casement fasteners. First floor has 5 similar 2-light windows with wood casements. Left part has 2-light C20 windows. 3 hipped roof dormers. Rear has 3 entrances including a blocked doorway with wood lintel. Moulded stone eaves cornice. Interior. Inglenook with chamfered bressumer. Chamfered beams. Straight flight staircase with winder. Splat balusters have heart shaped decoration. Wide plank doors. Butt purlin roof with principals pegged at the apex. Stable C18. Coursed, squared ironstone rubble. Corrugated iron roof. Coped stone gables. Single storey. 3 bays. 2 stable doors have wood lintels. 2 windows with slats and wood lintels. (Withycombe was settled in 1653 on Lord Saye and Sele's (of Broughton Castle) third son John Fiennes and his wife Susannah. The house is said to have been part of the dowry. VCH: Oxfordshire, Vol IX, p104-106)
Listing NGR: SP4331840221
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 244564
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1969), 104-106
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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