Timber Yard Cottages

TIMBER YARD COTTAGES, 1-3, CHURCH STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1048601
Date first listed:
21-Nov-1966
List Entry Name:
Timber Yard Cottages
Statutory Address:
TIMBER YARD COTTAGES, 1-3, CHURCH STREET
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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1048601
Date first listed:
21-Nov-1966
List Entry Name:
Timber Yard Cottages
Statutory Address 1:
TIMBER YARD COTTAGES, 1-3, CHURCH STREET

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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:
TIMBER YARD COTTAGES, 1-3, 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 31943 93491

Details

SHELLINGFORD CHURCH STREET SU39SW (North side) 5/204 Nos.1 to 3 (Timber Yard 21/11/66 Cottages)

GV II

Cottage row. c.1560-70. Uncoursed limestone rubble with limestone ashlar dressings; stone slate roof; rendered concrete stacks. Original plan form unclear. Domestic Tudor style. 2 storeys; 9-window range. Two square-headed doorways with splayed architraves, label moulds and C20 plank doors; central C20 inserted doorway. Ground floor has 2-light stone mullioned cavetto-moulded windows with arched heads and label moulds; first floor has one-and 2-light stone mullioned cavetto-moulded windows. Gabled roof; gable end stacks. To rear right is one 2-light stone mullioned cavetto-moulded window with arched heads and label mould, also at first floor level are two 2-light and 3 one-light stone mullioned and chamfered windows; other windows are late C20 in similar style. To rear left are two early C16 buttresses. Interior: Remodelled as 3 cottages c.1973; some C18 four-panelled doors survive; collar truss and queen-post roof with butt purlins.lBuildings of England: Berkshire, p.215; V.M.House, Shellingford: A Parish Record, 1978, p.22).

Listing NGR: SU3196793492

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Legacy System number:
251034
Legacy System:
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Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Berkshire, (1975), 215
House, V M, Shellingford A Parish Record, (1978), 22

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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.

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