The College
THE COLLEGE, COLLEGE LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1047666
- Date first listed:
- 25-Oct-1984
- List Entry Name:
- The College
- Statutory Address:
- THE COLLEGE, COLLEGE LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1047666
- Date first listed:
- 25-Oct-1984
- List Entry Name:
- The College
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE COLLEGE, COLLEGE LANE
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 COLLEGE, COLLEGE LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- Oxford (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Littlemore
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 53902 02890
Details
SP 5302 LITTLEMORE COLLEGE LANE (North side) 15/97 The College.
- II
Home of religious community,now cottages and museum. Late C18/early C19 converted c.1842 from farm buildings for J.H. (later Cardinal) Newman. Limestone rubble with ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roof with brick ridge stacks. L-plan on 2 sides of a walled garden. One-storey entrance range has wide through passage under a weatherboarded gable. To right are five 2-light casements and a door, with 10 similar windows to left, some converted from doors. All have ashlar quoins and segmental arches. Range returning to left on Cowley Road has four 2-light casements and a door, and the furthermost bay has a 3-light casement beneath a brick upper storey. The rear of the entrance range has a renewed timber loggia. Interior: Newman's room has a brick floor and a stone fireplace with basket grate, and is entered through an internal matchboard porch leading also to his adjacent oratory where he was received into the Roman Catholic Church in c.1845. (V.C.H. Oxfordshire, Vol.V, p.212-3).
Listing NGR: SP5390202890
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 246494
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1957), 212-3
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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