Crown House the Crown Cottage
46, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1047833
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jul-1963
- List Entry Name:
- Crown House the Crown Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- 46, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1047833
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jul-1963
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 14-May-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Crown House the Crown Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- 46, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- CROWN HOUSE, 48, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 3:
- THE CROWN COTTAGE, 52, HIGH STREET
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:
- 46, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- CROWN HOUSE, 48, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- THE CROWN COTTAGE, 52, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- South Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Dorchester
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 57760 94400
Details
DORCHESTER HIGH STREET SU5794 (East side) 5/68 No.46, No.48 (Crown House) and 18/07/63 No.52 (The Crown Cottage) (Formerly listed as Crown House)
GV II
Four dwellings, formerly an inn. C16, remodelled C18 and sub-divided C20. Timber framing with rendered and brick infill; colourwashed brick; old and recent plain-tile roofs with brick stacks. 5-unit plan with 2 rear wings. 2 storeys plus attics. 5-window C18 brick front, with stepped plinth, storey bands and plain parapet, has a central carriage entry with plank double doors. To left are 2 segmental-arched sashes with thick glazing bars; first floor sashes have been renewed, and heads and parapet rebuilt. To right, an elaborate doorcase, with fluted Composite columns and a carved frieze, has been added, flanked by large C20 bow windows; at first floor are two 16-pane sashes plus a shorter sash over the entry, all with segmental arches. The parapet rises as a gable with a 2-light casement. To extreme right is an elaborate lead rainwater head. Roof has a large stack to left of the entry, and 2 gabled roof dormers to extreme left. The one-bay timber-framed left rear wing retains a 5-light canted oriel at first floor, with ovolo-moulded mullions, leaded lights and a small gable. To left is a small high-level mullion window and there was probably a similar window to right. Timber-framed right rear wing has probably been shortened at first-floor level, but continued as stables, now converted to a dwelling (No.46). Interior: No.52, to left of entry, has a large open fireplace, a first-floor fireplace with a moulded-brick fireback, chamfered-and-stopped joists and beams, some very heavy flat joists, and massive curved windbraces in the roof.
Listing NGR: SU5776994404
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 248098
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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