Firtree House
FIRTREE HOUSE, 6, HORSECROFT
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1048580
- Date first listed:
- 15-Jan-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Firtree House
- Statutory Address:
- FIRTREE HOUSE, 6, HORSECROFT
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1048580
- Date first listed:
- 15-Jan-1986
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 03-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Firtree House
- Statutory Address 1:
- FIRTREE HOUSE, 6, HORSECROFT
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:
- FIRTREE HOUSE, 6, HORSECROFT
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:
- Stanford in the Vale
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 34428 93369
Details
STANFORD-IN-THE-VALE HORSECROFT (South side) 9/250 No. 9 (Firtree House)
The address shall be amended to read: HORSECROFT (South side) No. 6 (Firtree House)
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STANFORD-IN-THE-VALE HORSECROFT SU3493 (South side) 9/250 No.9 (Firtree House)
GV II
Farmhouse, now house. Early C18. Pebble dash over coursed limestone rubble; stone slate roof; rendered stacks. 3-unit plan. 2 storeys; 3-window range. 4-panelled door and 2 and 3-light casements of c.1900. Gabled roof; ridge stack. Roof dormer with 2-light leaded dormer to rear. Interior: Cased beams to right, chamfered and stopped beams to other ground floor rooms. New oak bressumer over open fireplace in centre room to left with ribbed doors to newel stairs placed between this stack and the front wall. Timber-framed partition and ribbed door to right wall of centre room on first floor. Loft has 3-bay butt purlin roof; one truss to right has 3 queen posts and a king stud from collar to apex. In the right gable wall is the demolished flue of an original stack, and the right truss has C18 horizontal boarding and a plank door on one side so making it into a partition. Subsidiary features: brewhouse, dairy and cheese loft to rear right. Early C18. Brick, roughly in Flemish bond with flared headers to left, coursed limestone rubble to right, weatherboarded to rear gable; stone slate roof; brick stack. 2 storeys; 2-window range. Timber lintels over 2 plank doors one of which has ventilators, and 2-light leaded casements; plank loft door to left. Gabled roof; ridge stack to right end. Interior: Chamfered beams, 4-bay collar truss roof with butt purlins.
Listing NGR: SU3442893369
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 251080
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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