The Birdcage Public House
THE BIRDCAGE PUBLIC HOUSE, 4, CORNMARKET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1047982
- Date first listed:
- 24-Apr-1951
- List Entry Name:
- The Birdcage Public House
- Statutory Address:
- THE BIRDCAGE PUBLIC HOUSE, 4, CORNMARKET
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- Reference:
- IOE01/05456/07
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1047982
- Date first listed:
- 24-Apr-1951
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 16-Jun-1988
- List Entry Name:
- The Birdcage Public House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE BIRDCAGE PUBLIC HOUSE, 4, CORNMARKET
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 BIRDCAGE PUBLIC HOUSE, 4, CORNMARKET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- South Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Thame
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 70685 05878
Details
THAME CORNMARKET SP7005NE (North-east side) 10/39 No.4 (The Birdcage Public 24/04/51 House) (Formerly listed as The "Bird Cage" Hotel)
GV II*
Public house. Early C16 with probably aid C16 three-storey addition to left, late C18 lean-to addition to ground floor. Render, probably on brick to ground floor; slate roof to lean-to roof between ground and first floors; large timber framing with rendered infill; old plain-tile roofs; brick stacks. 2-storey, 2-window range with 3-storey single-window range to left. Sash doors to centre and to angled corner to left. Tripartite unhorned sashes with glazing bars to left and right. Horizontal sliding sash to right. Horizontal sliding lash to right. 2-light leaded casement to centre. Timber framing first floor left has unusual crossed tension braces. C20 two-light wood mullion and transom window to first floor left. Jettied second floor to left. 2-light casement to second floor. Gabled roof of 2 heights to centre and right. Gabled roof to left with gable end to street front. Left return: C16 wood angled oriels to first floor with Perpendicular tracery. Interior; spine-beams, dragon beams and joists visible to ground floor. Reputed to have cellars of pre C16 date. (Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, 1979, p.816).
Listing NGR: SP7069405875
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 248466
- 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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