Ice House Approximately 40 Metres North of Ascott Park Farmhouse
ICE HOUSE APPROXIMATELY 40 METRES NORTH OF ASCOTT PARK FARMHOUSE, B480
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1048018
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jul-1963
- List Entry Name:
- Ice House Approximately 40 Metres North of Ascott Park Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- ICE HOUSE APPROXIMATELY 40 METRES NORTH OF ASCOTT PARK FARMHOUSE, B480
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1048018
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jul-1963
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 19-Aug-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Ice House Approximately 40 Metres North of Ascott Park Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- ICE HOUSE APPROXIMATELY 40 METRES NORTH OF ASCOTT PARK FARMHOUSE, B480
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:
- ICE HOUSE APPROXIMATELY 40 METRES NORTH OF ASCOTT PARK FARMHOUSE, B480
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- South Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Stadhampton
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 61191 98212
Details
STADHAMPTON B480 SU69NW (South side) Ascott 6/115 Ice house approx. 40n. N of 18/07/63 Ascott Park Farmhouse (Formerly listed as Ascott House, Dovecote and Workshop Pavilion)
GV II
Ice house and granary. Probably early C18 incorporating earlier features. Brick in Flemish bond with some limestone dressings; thatch roof. Octagonal plan. 2 storeys plus basement. Entrance has a 4-centre arched stone doorway with ovolo mouldings, recessed spandrels and a label. It stands above a similar 3-centre arched basement doorway, without label, which is approached down a flight of brick steps. In 3 other walls is a 2-light stone-mullioned window with concave chamfers and labels. The windows may be C16 and the doorways early C17. Octagonal pyramidal roof. Interior: walls are mostly in header bond with segmental rear arches to windows cutting across chamfers. First floor structure has been removed. Roof structure C20. Basement has an octagonal brick saucer done. Part of the former formal gardens of Ascott Park. (Ascott Park is included in the HBMC County Registers of Gardens at Grade II; V.C.H.: Oxfordshire, Vol.VII, p.121; Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, p.776; F. Woodward: Oxfordshire Parks, 1982).
Listing NGR: SU6119198212
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 248356
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Woodward, F, Oxfordshire Parks, (1982)
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1962), 121
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 34 Oxfordshire
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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