Lower Farmhouse
LOWER FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1047850
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jul-1963
- List Entry Name:
- Lower Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- LOWER FARMHOUSE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1047850
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jul-1963
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 15-May-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Lower Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- LOWER FARMHOUSE
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:
- LOWER FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- South Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Berrick Salome
- National Grid Reference:
- SU6195393950
Details
BERRICK SALOME
SU69SW
4/10
18/07/63
Lower Farmhouse
(Formerly listed as Lower
Berrick Farmhouse)
GV II
Large farmhouse. Probably C15, extended and remodelled c.1600. Coursed clunch
rubble with brick dressings; old plain-tile roof with brick stacks. 3-unit
through-passage plan with rear wing and stair tower. 2 storeys plus attics.
5-window front, with moulded brick plinth and 4 gables, has 2 entrances,
segmental-arched C19 sashes to left and centre, and 2-light renewed casements,
to right and at first floor. Left doorway has a projecting brick surround with a
chamfered Tudor arch, recessed spandrels and a moulded cornice. Right doorway
retains a moulded cornice over a C19 segmental arch. Roof has large renewed
stacks to right of centre and at left end. Right end wall returning to rear wing
is double gabled with one original wood-mullioned gable window. Rear has three
2-light brick-mullion windows with labels; plus some wooden casements. Hipped
roofed single-storey bay against left end has a blocked light with label, at the
rear and may have been higher. Interior: back-to-back open fireplaces;
intersecting chamfered beams; timber-framed internal walls; open-well stair,
with very large turned pine balusters and knob finials, rising to attics. Roof
has heavy curved windbraces and, between the 2 right bays, there is a C15
arch-braced collar truss springing from octagonal feet, with curved upper
struts. Probably a timber-framed 2-bay open hall.
Listing NGR: SU6195393950
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 248039
- 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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