WELL HOUSE,APPROXIMATELY 160 METRES SOUTH EAST OF THE FOLD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1048315
Date first listed:: 09-Feb-1966
List Entry Name:: WELL HOUSE,APPROXIMATELY 160 METRES SOUTH EAST OF THE FOLD
Statutory Address:: WELL HOUSE,APPROXIMATELY 160 METRES SOUTH EAST OF THE FOLD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1048315
Date first listed:: 09-Feb-1966
Date of most recent amendment:: 24-Jun-1987
List Entry Name:: WELL HOUSE,APPROXIMATELY 160 METRES SOUTH EAST OF THE FOLD
Statutory Address 1:: WELL HOUSE,APPROXIMATELY 160 METRES SOUTH EAST OF THE FOLD

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:: WELL HOUSE,APPROXIMATELY 160 METRES SOUTH EAST OF THE FOLD

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County:: Oxfordshire
District:: Vale of White Horse (District Authority)
Parish:: Botley and North Hinksey
National Grid Reference:: SP 49524 05048

Details

NORTH HINKSEY SP4905 11/67 Well House, approx. 160m SE of 09/02/66 The Fold (Formerly listed as Well House (part of the Fold)) - II* Well house. Built 1610 for Otho Nicholson. Limestone ashlar with C20 repairs; gabled C20 stone slate roof. One storey; 3-bay range. Moulded plinth course. Side walls each have 2 gabled buttresses. Front gable end has heraldic cartouche and 2-light vent abouve round-headed doorway: similar vent in rear gable wall. Cyma-kneelers to stone-coped gable ends. Interior not inspected. The springs on the hillside here supplied Oseney Abbey and the Friars Preachers of Oxford: the Well House was part of Otho Nicholson's scheme to bring this spring-water direct to "Carfax Conduit" in the centre of Oxford. Scheduled Ancient Monument. (Buildings of England: Berkshire, p.186; V.C.H.: Berkshire, Vol.IV, p.406).

Listing NGR: SP4952405048

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Legacy System number:: 249742
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Ditchfield, P H, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Berkshire, (1924), 406
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Berkshire, (1966), 186

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