Park Farmbuildings and 1 and 2, Park Farm Cottages
PARK FARM COTTAGES, 1 AND 2
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1052877
- Date first listed:
- 27-Jul-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Park Farmbuildings and 1 and 2, Park Farm Cottages
- Statutory Address:
- PARK FARM COTTAGES, 1 AND 2
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1052877
- Date first listed:
- 27-Jul-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Park Farmbuildings and 1 and 2, Park Farm Cottages
- Statutory Address 1:
- PARK FARM COTTAGES, 1 AND 2
- Statutory Address 2:
- PARK FARMBUILDINGS
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:
- PARK FARM COTTAGES, 1 AND 2
- Statutory Address:
- PARK FARMBUILDINGS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- West Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Blenheim
- National Grid Reference:
- SP4245017026
Details
BLENHEIM
SP41NW
2/21 Park Farmbuildings, and Nos.1
and 2 Park Farm Cottages
- II
Farmbuildings and cottages. 1768, by Capability Brown; remodelled and buildings
to rear and cottages built c.1858. Coursed limestone rubble with ashlar
dressings; gabled concrete tile roofs; Welsh slate roofs to covered yards and
hipped corrugated iron roofs to attached central ranges. Courtyard plan.
One-storey front range has central 2-storey archway, which has fleuree cross
surmounting stone-coped gable with moulded kneelers and keyed semi-circular arch
with imposts over plank double doors. Archway flanked by wings each of 3-window
range, with keyed flat stone arches over blocked windows and 2-light chamfered
stone-mullioned window to left. Segmental stone arches over plank stable doors
and hit-and-miss ventilators to looseboxes to rear. Range enclosing right side
of courtyard has segmental arches over arcaded shelter sheds, with brick
dressings to rear shelter shed, which has roothouse to rear. Range enclosing
left side of courtyard has through-entry to rear, and haylofts over similar
loosebox range and, facing outer side, 6-bay segmental-arched cartshed range and
2 implement sheds with plank double doors. Shelter sheds with segmental-arched
arcades extend from sides to centre of yard dividing it into 4 smaller yards;
plank doors to shelter sheds and covered yards to front, supported on brick
piers and with iron-trussed roof; 5-bay shelter shed to rear, with timber posts
and collar-truss roof. Range enclosing rear of courtyard has central 9-bay barn:
ventilation slits, central through-entry and queen-post roof with iron bracing;
floor to right of barn has fly wheels connected to 2-storey engine house to
rear, with timber lintels over plank double doors and casements. To front and
rear of right side of farm are two cottages built in 1858: each of one storey
and attic; stone-coped gable end with moulded kneelers has lancet window set
above 2-light chamfered stone-mullioned windows; cottage to front has 4-centred
arched doorway with sunk spandrels; ridge stacks of stone with brick flues.
Capability Brown built the farm as a menagerie for the Fourth Duke of
Marlborough. The gateway and flanking wings of the front range survive but have
been much remodelled: Brown built this range in Gothick style.
(Blenheim Park is included in the HBMC Register of Parks and Gardens at Grade I;
Buildings of England: Oxfordshire: p474; D. Green, Blenheim Palace: 1951, p198)
Listing NGR: SP4245017026
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 253003
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 474
Green, D, Blenheim Palace, (1951), 198
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 34 Oxfordshire
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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