Shellingford House
SHELLINGFORD HOUSE, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1048599
- Date first listed:
- 10-Nov-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Shellingford House
- Statutory Address:
- SHELLINGFORD HOUSE, CHURCH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1048599
- Date first listed:
- 10-Nov-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 15-Jan-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Shellingford House
- Statutory Address 1:
- SHELLINGFORD HOUSE, CHURCH STREET
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:
- SHELLINGFORD 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:
- Shellingford
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 31850 93566
Details
SHELLINGFORD CHURCH STREET SU39SW (North side) 5/199 Shellingford House 10/11/52 (Formerly listed as The Rectory
GV II
House. c.1630. Late C18 rear and mid C19 left side extensions. Coursed limestone rubble; limestone ashlar dressings; stone slate roof, tiled to rear; brick stacks, except original stacks of limestone rubble finished in C19 brick. Double-depth plan. Jacobean style. 2 storeys, basement and attic; 5-window range. Front door has been blocked and rendered over. Half-blocked basement window to right is 2-light, stone-mullioned and cavetto-moulded with one leaded casement. Splayed plinth course. Over basement window is early C17 one-light window with cavetto moulded surround, label mould and C20 casement; four C20 French windows in mid C19 openings with label moulds to other ground-floor windows. On first floor early C17 two-light stone-mullioned cavetto-moulded windows with label moulds and C20 leaded casements flank similar central 4-light window. Similar 2-light windows light attic, the top storey having two cross gables. M-shaped gabled roof; gable end stack to rear right and two internal stacks in central valley. Left side wall has gabled extension of c.1850, with canted bay window, two late C18 sashes under early C17 style hood moulds and a semi-cicular brick arch over a mid C19 six-panelled (4 glazed) door with late C18 fanlight, To rear right is early Cl6 three-light stone mullioned and moulded window with arched heads and hood mould; much restored C18 four-light leaded casement over; to centre of first floor are C18 leaded casements set in early C17 two-light wood mullioned ovolo-moulded window, with much restored C18 three-light leaded casement to left; other windows are mid C19 sashes, casements and gabled dormer. To centre of rear elevation is two-storey extension with 2-light leaded casements and half-hipped roof. Two cross gables to rear. Interior: Mid C19 six- and 4-panelled doors and shutters; quartered cyma-moulded beams and mid C19 stone fireplace in front right room; chamfered beams in rear right room; front left room has early C17 moulded plaster cornice continued around quartered beams, the soffits of which are decorated with pomegranetes etc; rear right room has mid C19 decorative tiled floor and early C17 stone fireplace with moulded architrave. Straight-run and quarter-turn stairs in rear extension. Main feature of house is early C17 open-well staircase to rear with moulded balusters, string and banister with ball finials and pendentives nearly touching; stairs supported by posts with carved Doric columns which, joined by a 4-centred arch, frame the main exits and entries. First floor has chamfered beams and substantial timber framed partition walls. Early C17 ribbed cupboard door with butterfly hinges in attic. Roof obscured but probably of collar truss type. Subsidiary features: To rear right is mid C18 single storey extension joined to brew/bakehouse; built of limestone rubble with brick dressings, tiled roof and brick stack. Brew/bakehouse has timber lintels over C19 plank door, C18 three-light leaded casement and C20 garage doors to left; hipped roof; central ridge stack. Interior: chamfered beam and segmental arch over large blocked fireplace to left room, and right room open to 2-bay collar truss roof with butt purlins and notched ridge piece. To rear left early C20 block connects house to long mid C18 stable block. Limestone rubble, brick dressings, tiled and stone slate roof, wall has timber lintels over C18 one-, 2- and 4-light leaded casements and rear gable wall has cusped leaded light set in semi-circular brick arch. (Buildings of England: Berkshire, p.215).
Listing NGR: SU3185093566
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 251029
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Berkshire, (1975), 215
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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