Spencer's Farmhouse
SPENCER'S FARMHOUSE, THE GREEN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1048681
- Date first listed:
- 15-Jan-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Spencer's Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- SPENCER'S FARMHOUSE, THE GREEN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1048681
- Date first listed:
- 15-Jan-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Spencer's Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- SPENCER'S FARMHOUSE, THE GREEN
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:
- SPENCER'S FARMHOUSE, THE GREEN
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:
- Baulking
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 31725 91319
Details
BAULKING THE GREEN SU39SW (West side) 5/4 Spencer's Farmhouse GV II
Farmhouse. Late C17, remodelled and extended c.1855. Front wall of coursed limestone rubble with chalk window dressings; wall to left of door built of uncoursed chalk rubble with limestone quoins and window dressings. Right side wall rebuilt in early C19 English bond brick; chalk and limestone rubble rear wall. Mid C19 left side wall of chalk ashlar with limestone ashlar dressings; mid C19 rear left wall of Flemish bond brick with flared headers. Stone slate roof; brick stacks. 3-unit lobby-entry plan with continuous rear outshut extended to rear left in mid C19. 2 storeys; 2-window range to front which has flat hood with panelled soffit over 6-panelled door; flat stone arches over original 3-light leaded casements to right and mid C19 8-pane sash to left. Rear wall has C18 plank door with drawbar, one 2-light leaded casement and gabled roof dormer with original 2-light leaded casement. Gabled roof to right, hipped roof to left and left front; ridge stack, mid C19 lateral stack in rear left wing. In mid C19 left side wall was built as a front wall facing the walled garden and The Green; stone lintels over 8-pane sashes in 3-window range and central 4-panelled door with overlight and early C20 porch. Interior: Some C18 plank doors with fittings, mainly mid C19 four-panelled doors; mid C19 marble fireplaces, shutters and straight-run stairs opposite entry in left side wall; left room has C18 china closet and original chamfered beam cut by insertion of mid C19 sash in left side wall; stone flags to lobby floor. Original 2-bay collar-truss roof survives over right side of house. Subsidiary features: Dairy and cheese room of c.1800 attached to right gable wall, built of Flemish bond brick to rear; squared and coursed chalk to front with tiled roof. 2 storeys; plank door, 2-window range has early C20 casements and 2 stone mullioned and double splayed C17 windows reset in rear wall, Interior: Chamfered beams, original framed and winding staircase, cheese shelves on first floor and fine 3-bay roof of curved collar trusses with butt purlins and plank ridge. Attached to front of this building is early C19 brewhouse, coverted into C20 garage but retaining reset 3-light leaded casement and C19 pump against rebuilt left wall.
Listing NGR: SU3172591319
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 250833
- 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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