Woolstone Lodge and Adjoining Cottage
WOOLSTONE LODGE AND ADJOINING COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1048674
- Date first listed:
- 11-Dec-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Woolstone Lodge and Adjoining Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- WOOLSTONE LODGE AND ADJOINING COTTAGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1048674
- Date first listed:
- 11-Dec-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Woolstone Lodge and Adjoining Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- WOOLSTONE LODGE AND ADJOINING COTTAGE
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:
- WOOLSTONE LODGE AND ADJOINING COTTAGE
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:
- Woolstone
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 29454 87845
Details
WOOLSTONE SU28NE 5/185 Wool stone Lodge and adjoining Cottage
- II
House. C17, reconstructed and extended c.1839. by Captain Butler, R.N. retd. L-plan. Roughcast walls; Welsh slate roof; brick stacks. Two storeys. Garden front: 3-window range; margin lights to sashes with hood moulds; dentilled eaves; gabled side wings with central raised parapet; ridge stacks. Right side 4-window range; near-centre door has 6-panelled and reeded architrave; sashes and lunettes to first floor, 2 sashes and 2 French windows with margin light sashes to ground floor. Interior: lime ash floor immitating stone flagging in hall, which retains elliptical arch to rear; original fireplace and staircase with cast-iron balusters; original fireplaces to other rooms; room to front right has Gothick style cast-iron fireplace and late Cl6 oak panellin, removed from an unknown house in Wales c.1870. Moulded and dentilled cornice, overmantle has 3 painted scenes from the Labours of Hercules. To rear right of Captain Butler's work of c.1830 are two late C17 to early C18 cottages: roughcast walling; slate roofing, brick ridge stack of c.1700. When Captain George Butler built Woolstone Lodge, he planted a small park opposite the garden front with elms, beeches etc., diverted the mill stream and built the Stag House and building housing the granary and stables attached to the house. (John Hadow, The Village of Woolstone, Oxford (privately printed) 1975. p23)
Listing NGR: SU2946087831
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 250816
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hadow, J, The Village of Woolstone Oxford, (1975), 23
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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