Greys Court, Dower House
GREYS COURT, DOWER HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1047391
- Date first listed:
- 24-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Greys Court, Dower House
- Statutory Address:
- GREYS COURT, DOWER HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1047391
- Date first listed:
- 24-Oct-1951
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 13-Feb-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Greys Court, Dower House
- Statutory Address 1:
- GREYS COURT, DOWER HOUSE
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:
- GREYS COURT, DOWER HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- South Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Rotherfield Greys
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 72544 83383
Details
ROTHERFIELD GREYS SU78SW 6/124 Greys Court, Dower House 24/10/51 (Formerly listed as Greys Court including Batchelors Hall, The Well House, and Towers NE, NW and SW of house) GV I Formerly known as Batchelors Hall. House. C14 tower with C16 house attached, with later alterations. Flint with stone dressings to tower; red brick to house; plain old tile roof; brick stacks. Octagonal tower to right with rectangular-plan house to left. 2 storey, 2-window range to house. 3 storey tower. Slit window to each side of tower to ground and first floor. Single light window to each side of second floor of tower. Crenellated parapet; octagonal pyramidal roof. Central C20 sash door with stone surround with label mould with dropped ends to house. 3-light casements to all openings with stone surrounds with label moulds with dropped ends. Large brick stack at junction of house and tower. Rear: Irregular fenestratiion, 4 cross gables to roof. Interior not inspected. Motto over entrance door: "Melius nil coelibe vita" (Nothing is better than the celibate life). History: Licence to crenellate granted to Sir John de Grey in 1347. (Buildings of England : Oxfordshire, p.735-7; Greys Court, National Trust Guidebook, 1982).
Listing NGR: SU7254583384
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 247146
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Greys Court, (1982)
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 735-7
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 34 Oxfordshire
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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