Garden Wall of Denton House
GARDEN WALL OF DENTON HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1047674
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jul-1963
- List Entry Name:
- Garden Wall of Denton House
- Statutory Address:
- GARDEN WALL OF DENTON HOUSE
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- Date:
- 2005-08-01
- Reference:
- IOE01/14560/19
- Rights:
- © Tim Belcher. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1047674
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jul-1963
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 25-Oct-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Garden Wall of Denton House
- Statutory Address 1:
- GARDEN WALL OF DENTON 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:
- GARDEN WALL OF DENTON HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- South Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Cuddesdon and Denton
- National Grid Reference:
- SP5925402584
Details
SP 5902 CUDDESDON AND DENTON DENTON
9/22 Garden wall of Denton House.
18/07/63 (Formerly listed as Denton
House with garden wall and
gateway to road)
GV II*
Garden wall. Late C17/early C18 and mid C18 with mid-C17 features.
Limestone rubble with some ashlar dressings and brickwork. Earlier section
runs from north of the house along part of the east side and around the north
and west sides of the garden. It is 2.5 to 3m high and has a tapering coursed-
rubble coping. Set into the wall are Gothic Survival windows of c.1665 by the
mason John Jackson, brought from Brasenose College, Oxford in 1844-5. On the
north is a large 5-light window with oval wheel tracery under a pointed arch,
formerly the east window of the chapel. On the west are 6 round-headed
windows of cusped lights from the library. The south wall has a flat coping.
Immediately south of the house begins a mid-C18 section which returns
northwards to the front. It is of banded rubble and ashlar with a brick
lining in Flemish bond. Opposite the main (south) front of the house, also
immediately north in the east wall, are mid-C18 doorways with 3-centre
arched heads and moulded architraves with key-blocks. The main gateway in the
east wall, immediately south of the house, is probably late C17. It has a
3-centred arch in a rectangular surround with key-block and imposts which
continue over flanking pilasters; above is an open segmental pediment with
a central cartouche and pedestal.
(V.C.H. Oxfordshire V, p.106; Buildings of England, Oxfordshire, pp564-5
and pp,106-7 for Brasenose College.)
Listing NGR: SP5925402584
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 246410
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1957), 106
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 564-5
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 106-7
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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