Witts Farmhouse
WITTS FARMHOUSE, MAIN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1052787
- Date first listed:
- 30-Aug-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Witts Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- WITTS FARMHOUSE, MAIN STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1052787
- Date first listed:
- 30-Aug-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Witts Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- WITTS FARMHOUSE, MAIN STREET
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:
- WITTS FARMHOUSE, MAIN STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- West Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Over Norton
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 31688 28498
Details
OVER NORTON MAIN STREET SP3028-3128 (West side) 13/105 Witts Farmhouse
GV II
Farmhouse. Late C17 and early C18, altered c.1800. Coursed squared limestone with some ashlar dressings and wooden lintels; concrete plain-tile roof with ashlar-and-brick gable stacks. Central-stair plan with added parallel range to rear. 2 storeys plus attic on a semi-basement. Symmetrical 3-window front, with 16-pane sashes in the outer bays and a 12-pane sash above the central doorway, was altered c.1800 from a 5-window front and retains blocked narrow windows to both floors, stone-mullioned cellar windows, and a moulded string which returns around the end walls. Steep-pitched roof has 2 gabled roof dormers, and each stack has a plinth with a moulded cap and 2 renewed diagonal brick shafts. Rear range is shorter and has 3 large transomed 3-light casements at each floor, mostly with renewed frames. Interior: C17 dogleg stair rising to attic with barleytwist balusters and a moulded handrail; vaulted cellars with 2 chamfered stone doorways.
Listing NGR: SP3168828498
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 253285
- 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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