St Frideswide's Cottage
ST FRIDESWIDE'S COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1048716
- Date first listed:
- 11-Dec-1985
- List Entry Name:
- St Frideswide's Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- ST FRIDESWIDE'S COTTAGE
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- Reference:
- IOE01/01893/02
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1048716
- Date first listed:
- 11-Dec-1985
- List Entry Name:
- St Frideswide's Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- ST FRIDESWIDE'S 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:
- ST FRIDESWIDE'S 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:
- Compton Beauchamp
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 28202 87123
Details
COMPTON BEAUCHAMP KNIGHTON SU28NE 5/86 St. Frideswide's Cottage
GV II
Farmhouse, now house, C17. Probable C17 timber frame clad in C18; right hand wing in squared and coursed chalk on sarsen base; brick stacks; left wing in a random bond brick and chalk rubble brought to course; tiled roof thatched to right; L-plan. 1 1/2-storey. Garden front: right wing of one-window and one-door range, left wing of 2-window and one-door range. C20 casements, except elliptical brick arches over 3-light C18 leaded window to front right and 3-light C18 leaded windows to rear of right wing. Segmental brick arch over fixed leaded light to right side of left wing which also has tile-clad gabled dormers with C20 casements. C19 plank doors; one C20 door to left wing; Gabled roof end stack to right wing, ridge and end stacks to left wing. Interior: right wing has chamfered beam with elaborate stop to ground floor and 3-bay collar-truss with chamfered and stopped beams; 3-bay trusses with butt purlins in left wing have traces of lap-dovetail assembly indicating existence of probable timber frame before cladding in C18.
Listing NGR: SU2820287123
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 250716
- 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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