3, 4 and 5 Lewin Close
3, 4 and 5 Lewin Close, Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX4 3JL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1047374
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jan-1954
- List Entry Name:
- 3, 4 and 5 Lewin Close
- Statutory Address:
- 3, 4 and 5 Lewin Close, Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX4 3JL
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- Date:
- 2003-03-16
- Reference:
- IOE01/10374/35
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1047374
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jan-1954
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 28-Jun-1972
- List Entry Name:
- 3, 4 and 5 Lewin Close
- Statutory Address 1:
- 3, 4 and 5 Lewin Close, Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX4 3JL
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:
- 3, 4 and 5 Lewin Close, Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX4 3JL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- Oxford (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 54012 03853
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 7 November 2022 to amend the name and address, and reformat the text to current standards
SP 50 SW
26/95
LEWIN CLOSE
Nos 3, 4 and 4
BEAUCHAMP LANE (East Side) (Formerly Church Street) No 8)
12.1.54.
II
House. At right angles to road in a long rectangular plan. Two-storeyed roughcast rubble with cellars, stone copings, kneelers, ball finials and stone slate roof. Modern yellow brick chimney shafts.
In the South elevation are modern two-light casement windows. The West gable is C17 and has three and four-light ancient casement windows with wood frames and lintels. The North elevation is of coursed rubble and has five gabled attic dormers in the roof and five two-light modern casement windows.
Interior: Modernized except that the ground floor east room has some late C18 panelling and a niche. History. Once known as the Rectory farmhouse and may possibly be one of the buildings erected by William Napper c 1600; he died aged 75.
(Oxf Hist Soc 92. 192). Napper appears to have been in Cowley in 1573 (i b 188) and to have had a "farme house" in Cowley. (Wood's Life III, 122).
Listing NGR: SP5401203853
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 245323
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Oxford History Society in Oxford History Society, Vol. 92, (), 192
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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