St Lucian's and Attached Former Maltings St Lucian's Lower Wharf

ST LUCIAN'S AND ATTACHED FORMER MALTINGS, LOWER WHARF

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1048497
Date first listed:
09-Dec-1949
List Entry Name:
St Lucian's and Attached Former Maltings St Lucian's Lower Wharf
Statutory Address:
ST LUCIAN'S AND ATTACHED FORMER MALTINGS, LOWER WHARF
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1048497
Date first listed:
09-Dec-1949
Date of most recent amendment:
09-Feb-1988
List Entry Name:
St Lucian's and Attached Former Maltings St Lucian's Lower Wharf
Statutory Address 1:
ST LUCIAN'S AND ATTACHED FORMER MALTINGS, LOWER WHARF
Statutory Address 2:
ST LUCIAN'S LOWER WHARF, LOWER WHARF

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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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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
ST LUCIAN'S AND ATTACHED FORMER MALTINGS, LOWER WHARF
Statutory Address:
ST LUCIAN'S LOWER WHARF, LOWER WHARF

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

County:
Oxfordshire
District:
South Oxfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:
Wallingford
National Grid Reference:
SU 60846 89025

Details

WALLINGFORD LOWER WHARF SU6089SE (South side) Wallingford 11/105 St. Lucian's and attached 09/12/49 former maltings (Formerly listed as St. Lucian's Lower Wharf)

GV II*

House and attached maltings and flats. Mid C16 house, possibly incorporating earlier work; early C17 maltings and hop kiln. C17 bays to house. Limestone rubble and flint plinth; roughcast, with decorative pargetting, probably on brick, with some stone quoins, to ground floor; roughcast, with decorative pargeting, probably on timber framing to first floor; old plain-tile roof; brick end stacks with diagonally set flues. 2-unit cross-passage plan with central staircase. 2 storeys and attic; 3-window range. Plank ribbed and studded door with stone Tudor-arch doorway to centre with lean-to lead-covered hood on brackets. 2-light leaded stone mullion windows to left and right of centre. Angled 2-storey bays with leaded stone mullion windows to ground and first floor at left and with battlemented parapet. Continuous hood mould to ground floor with reversed hearts above. 3-light wood mullion window with 2-light side-windows to first floor centre. 3 cross-gables to roof with 2-light leaded wood mullion windows. Rear: 2 storeys and attic; 3-window range. 6-panel part-glazed door with rendered architrave surround to centre. 2-storey angled bays with leaded stone mullion windows to ground and first floor at left and right, except early C19 French doors to ground floor right. Continuous hood mould to ground floor with reversed hearts above. 3-light wood mullion window with 2-light side-windows to first floor centre. 3 cross-gables to roof with 2-light leaded wood mullion windows. Interior: C17 straight flight staircase with winders to base, from ground to first floor with baluster balustrade. Queen strut roof with purlins cut to form cross-gables, Tudor-arched stone fireplaces to ground and first floor left and right. Maltings and subsidiary dwellings at right-angles to left. Coursed clunch rubble with C19 brick buttress; old plain-tile roof. Approx. 7 bays long. Collar truss roof with some windbracing. Hop kiln at junction: clunch rubble with brick dressings to base; large timber framing above with brick infill; old plain-tile gableted roof with conical roof of kiln rising from ridge, with wooden louvred cap. Original roof structure of kiln survives. Subsidiary dwelling range at right-angles to house, fronting onto street: flint base; clunch rubble walls; old plain tile roof. 2-storey, 4-window range. Panel doors, Irregular fenestration of casements. Deep jetty to first floor. Collar truss roof. The house fronts onto the River Thames. (V.C.H,: Berkshire, Vol.III, 1923; "Some Notes on the Domestic Architecture of Wallingford, Berkshire"; by P.S. Spokes, in Berkshire Archaeological Journal, 'Jol.50 1947).

Listing NGR: SU6084689025

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Legacy System number:
249268
Legacy System:
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Sources

Books and journals
Ditchfield, P H, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Berkshire, (1923)
Berkshire Archaeological Journal in Berkshire Archaeological Journal, Vol. 50, (1947)

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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