Wellhouse Immediately West of Well Cottage
WELLHOUSE IMMEDIATELY WEST OF WELL COTTAGE, THE HAMLET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1052181
- Date first listed:
- 25-Apr-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Wellhouse Immediately West of Well Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- WELLHOUSE IMMEDIATELY WEST OF WELL COTTAGE, THE HAMLET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1052181
- Date first listed:
- 25-Apr-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Wellhouse Immediately West of Well Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- WELLHOUSE IMMEDIATELY WEST OF WELL COTTAGE, THE HAMLET
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:
- WELLHOUSE IMMEDIATELY WEST OF WELL COTTAGE, THE HAMLET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- South Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Kidmore End
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 69117 80218
Details
The following building shall be added:
KIDMORE END SU68SE THE HAMLET, Gallowstree Common
472-0/6/10001 Wellhouse immediately west of Well Cottage
- II
Wellhouse and winding gear. Circa mid to late C19. Square on plan. Low red brick and flint-panelled walls with brick diaperwork and brick buttresses at the corners supporting thin brick piers surmounted by a pyramidal roof clad in plain tiles and bands of scalloped tiles; wooden spike finial at apex of roof and wrought-iron fleur-de-lis at the corners. The sides are open above the low walls, the south west side has an iron grille and the south east side is entirely open and gives access to the well. The iron winding gear is intact and is supported on a wooden frame; an inscription records the maker :- R.J.and H. Wilders Patent Wallingford, Berkshire. The well is 300ft deep and it is shown on the 1873 O.S. map.
Listing NGR: SU6911780218
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 361497
- 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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