ARDINGTON HOUSE

ARDINGTON HOUSE, CHURCH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1048188
Date first listed:: 25-Oct-1951
List Entry Name:: ARDINGTON HOUSE
Statutory Address:: ARDINGTON HOUSE, CHURCH STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1048188
Date first listed:: 25-Oct-1951
List Entry Name:: ARDINGTON HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: ARDINGTON HOUSE, CHURCH STREET

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: ARDINGTON HOUSE, CHURCH STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Oxfordshire
District:: Vale of White Horse (District Authority)
Parish:: Ardington
National Grid Reference:: SU 43295 88273

Details

ARDINGTON CHURCH STREET SU4388 (South side) 17/6 Ardington House 25/10/51

II*

Gentry house. c.1720, with some later alterations. Probably by Thomas Strong, Junior, of Oxford; for Edward Clarke. Ashlar stone plinth; grey brick with red brick dressings; complex roof of slate with lead ridges; brick end stacks and ridge stacks. Baroque style. 3-storey, 7-window range, arranged 2:3:2. Segmental-headed 6-panel door to centre, with stone architrave surround with keystones, and rusticated outer surround. Segmental-headed 12-pane sashes with segmental brick heads and brick keystones to left and right bays to centre. Two 12-pane sashes with flat brick arches and brick keystones to left and right. Flat brick band between ground and first floors. 3 segmental-headed 12-pane sashes with segmental brick heads having brick keystones, and brick aprons, to first floor centre 3 bays. Two 12-pane sashes with flat brick arches and brick keystones to first floor left and right. Flat brick band between first and second floors. 3 segmental-headed 12-pane sashes with segmental brick heads having brick keystones, and brick aprons, to second floor 3 bays. Two 12-pane sashes with flat brick arches and brick keystones to second floor left and right. Plain stone cornice at base of plain parapet. Pediment to centre 3 bays, with mid C19 armorial cartouche. Rear: identical fenestration, except glazed door to ground floor centre and C19 wood 2-light wood mullion and transom windows to lengthened openings with flat brick arches and brick keystones to ground floor left and right. Mid C19 wood loggia on Doric columns to ground floor centre 3 bays. Left return: 3-storey, 3-window range. 6-panel door with plain fanlight and round-arched surround having keystone and impost blocks. Round-topped 12-pane sashes with round-arched surrounds having keystones and impost blocks to ground and first floors, that to ground floor left shortened; those to first floor have shaped brick aprons. Flat brick band between ground and first floors, and between first and second floors. 3 round windows with keystones to second floor. Interior: mid C19 wood panelling to hall, with shell-topped niches flanked by paired Ionic pilasters to each side of hall. Early C19 Imperial staircase which rises in 2 flights to half-landing and returns in single flight to first floor. Balustrade of barley-sugar twist balusters. First floor landing has mid C19 wood panelling in Baroque style. Dining room to ground floor rear has probably early C18 Bolection moulded panelling with some later alterations and early C19 plasterwork ceiling of garlands of vines with central shaped moulding. Subsidiary kitchen pavilion, of 1961 by Hugh Vaux, is not of special architectural interest. History: built by Thomas Strong, for Edward Clarke. Estate bought by Robert Vernon in 1833. Vernon made a fortune selling horses to the British Army in the Napoleonic Wars, and presented a collection of paintings to the nation. In 1861 Ardington was bought by Lord Wantage of Lockinge. (Ardington House, by Bervase Jackson-Stops in Country Life: 1981; Buildings of England, Berkshire, 1975 p67)

Listing NGR: SU4329588273

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Legacy System number:: 250046
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Berkshire, (1975), 67
'Country Life' in Country Life, (1981)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.