Beauforest House
BEAUFOREST HOUSE, A329
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1048069
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jul-1963
- List Entry Name:
- Beauforest House
- Statutory Address:
- BEAUFOREST HOUSE, A329
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1048069
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jul-1963
- List Entry Name:
- Beauforest House
- Statutory Address 1:
- BEAUFOREST HOUSE, A329
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:
- BEAUFOREST HOUSE, A329
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- South Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Newington
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 60867 96559
Details
NEWINGTON A329 SU6096 (West side) 15/37 Beauforest House 18/07/63
GV II
Rectory, now house. c.1500, late C18 and c.1800. Limestone ashlar and clunch rubble with some rendering; old plain-tile roofs with brick stacks. L-plan. 2 storeys. Symmetrical 5-window ashlar front, with storey band, cornice and parapet has a central doorway with pilasters, a triangular pediment and a delicate fanlight. 12-pane sashes contain much original glass. Hipped roof. Right end is bowed with 3 sashes at each floor, the lower windows 5 panes deep. Coursed clunch bay to rear has tripartite sashes with "C.M. CLOZIER 1774" on a flat arch. Lower range to extreme rear is partly rubble with brick dressings and partly early C20 brick probably replacing timber framing; there is a wooden bellcote on the roof. A subsidiary range extends to right and timber-framed range formerly extended to left. Interior: main rooms have delicate plaster cornices and early C19 fireplaces. Central stair hall has an open-well stair with ramped handrail. Ground floor of earlier rear range has intersecting moulded beans of triangular section and broad chamfered and stopped joists, probably of about 1500. (Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, p.716).
Listing NGR: SU6088196476
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 248274
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 716
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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