Worton House
WORTON HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1052466
- Date first listed:
- 18-May-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Worton House
- Statutory Address:
- WORTON HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1052466
- Date first listed:
- 18-May-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Worton House
- Statutory Address 1:
- WORTON HOUSE
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:
- WORTON HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- West Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Worton
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 43125 29138
Details
WORTON OVER WORTON SP42NW 6/245 Worton House - II Large house. c.1816 for William Wilson, extended and internally re-modelled c.1850. Marlstone ashlar and some render; Welsh-slate roofs with ashlar stacks. Double-depth plan. 3 storeys with single-storey wings, partly raised to 2 storeys. Earlier central 3 bays of 7-window front have storey bands, 12-pane sashes, and a central late C19 ashlar porch with a heavy wooden cornice. 2-window wings break forward with 12-pane sashes to right and 4-pane to left. Left wing raised c.1923 with rendered walls. Plain parapets conceal shallow-pitched hipped roofs and carry symmetrical flanking stacks with cornices; the parapet of the right wing sweeping up to 2 end stacks. Rear is plain and has been altered in one bay, but retains an ornamental overlight to the central door. Interior: 3-bay entrance hall with arched recesses and 2 marble fireplaces; other mid C19 decoration; oak stair c.1900. (V.C.H.: Oxfordshire, Vol.XI, p.296).
Listing NGR: SP4312529138
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 252061
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1983), 296
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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