Lower Idstone Farmhouse and Rose Cottage Adjoining

LOWER IDSTONE FARMHOUSE AND ROSE COTTAGE ADJOINING

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1048777
Date first listed:
21-Nov-1966
List Entry Name:
Lower Idstone Farmhouse and Rose Cottage Adjoining
Statutory Address:
LOWER IDSTONE FARMHOUSE AND ROSE COTTAGE ADJOINING

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1048777
Date first listed:
21-Nov-1966
Date of most recent amendment:
11-Dec-1985
List Entry Name:
Lower Idstone Farmhouse and Rose Cottage Adjoining
Statutory Address 1:
LOWER IDSTONE FARMHOUSE AND ROSE COTTAGE ADJOINING

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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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Corrections and minor amendments

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
LOWER IDSTONE FARMHOUSE AND ROSE COTTAGE ADJOINING

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:
Ashbury
National Grid Reference:
SU 25557 84352

Details

ASHBURY IDSTONE SU28SE 8/32 Lower Idstone Farmhouse and 21/11/66 Rose Cottage adjoining (Formerly listed as Lower Idstone Farmhouse and cottage attached to Lower Idstone Farmhouse)

- II

Farmhouse. Datestone at rear: BEB 1595, rebuilt early/mid C18. Uncoursed sarsen rubble and coursed squared chalk; brick dressings: stone slate roof, brick stacks. Central staircase plan. 2-storey 5-window range. Brick segmental arch with central key over mid C19 4-panellled door with late C20 flat hood; initials IR over front door. Brick segmental arches over mid C19 horned sashes; brick band in Flemish bond. Gabled roof; mid C18 ridge stack and one late C19 rear lateral stack. Mid C19 dairy lean-to against rear right wall. Thatched 1 1/2 storey cottage against the right gable end. Sarsen and chalk rubble, brought to course, chalk block quoins, thatched roof. 1 1/2 storeys. 2 window range, brick segmental arch over late C19 plank door; brick segmental arches over early C20 two-light casements. The main block incorporates an earlier building with chalk quoins: brick quoins seem to have been built from floor level to eaves when the house was heightened in the mid C19.

Listing NGR: SU2555784352

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
250660
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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