Priory Farmhouse
PRIORY FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1052779
- Date first listed:
- 30-Aug-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Priory Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- PRIORY FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1052779
- Date first listed:
- 30-Aug-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Priory Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- PRIORY FARMHOUSE
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:
- PRIORY FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- West Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Heythrop
- National Grid Reference:
- SP3361628110
Details
HEYTHROP
SP32NW
4/83 Priory Farmhouse
II
Farmhouse. Probably C16 and C17, possibly incorporating medieval elements;
altered C19 and C20. Part-coursed limestone rubble with ashlar dressings;
Stonesfield-slate roof with ashlar stacks. L plan. 2 storeys plus attic.
3-window front of main range has original 2-light stone-mullioned windows in the
middle bay, but has C19 mullioned windows in the outer bays and in the short
wing which projects from the left; entrance between bays one and 2 has a C19/C20
stone porch and there is a second rubble porch in the angle of the ranges. Wing,
which is probably C17, is of squared rubble with a chamfered plinth.
Steep-pitched roof has 2 ridge stacks over the main range and a gable stack on
the wing, all with moulded caps and plinths. Sides and rear have further renewed
mullioned windows, all with lattice glazing. Interior: main range has heavy
chamfered cross beams, morticed for wide joists, which are probably late
medieval and may be insitu; an open fireplace has a cambered bressumer, and a
Tudor-arched stone fireplace has recessed spandrels and ogee mouldings, repeated
in a similar chamber fireplace. Wing has intersecting chamfered beams and an
open fireplace. Butt-purlin roof has cambered collars. The house is on the site
of Cold Norton Priory, a smell Augustinian foundation, the ruins of which are
shown beside the house in a Buck engraving of 1729. Priory Farm was until 1985
in the Civil Parish of Over Norton.
(Buildings of England: Oxfordshire: p541)
Listing NGR: SP3361628110
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 253264
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 541
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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