The Cowyards and Cowyards Cottage
COWYARDS COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1052886
- Date first listed:
- 27-Jul-1988
- List Entry Name:
- The Cowyards and Cowyards Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- COWYARDS COTTAGE
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- Date:
- 2001-10-17
- Reference:
- IOE01/04885/34
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1052886
- Date first listed:
- 27-Jul-1988
- List Entry Name:
- The Cowyards and Cowyards Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- COWYARDS COTTAGE
- Statutory Address 2:
- THE COWYARDS
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:
- COWYARDS COTTAGE
- Statutory Address:
- THE COWYARDS
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:
- SP4526116059
Details
BLENHEIM
SP41NE
3/31 The Cowyards and Cowyards
Cottage
- II
Farmbuildings. c.1860. Squared and coursed limestone; gabled Welsh slate roofs,
with ball finials to stone-coped gables of central range. U-plan, with central
range dividing enclosure into 2 foldyards open to front. Yard to right: range on
right side has saddle room with segmental arch over plank door and stone ridge
stack, and loosebox range with 3 stable doors and slatted openings and cast-iron
columns to row of slatted ventilators beneath eaves; to rear are segmental stone
arches over door flanked by 2-light casements with glazing bars, and
through-entry to right. Yard to left has similar stable doors and casements to
rear and 8 plank doors to range on left; double doors to swill house with stone
stack to front of left range. Central range has cast-iron columns to row of
slatted ventilators beneath eaves: to rear are segmental stone arches over plank
double doors to 2-storey mixing house. Interior: plank doors and feeding
passages. Subsidiary features: mid C19 Cowyards Cottage, of similar materials,
attached to right. Good example of mid C19 stock fare.
(Blenheim Park is included in the HBMC Register of Parks and Gardens at Grade I)
Listing NGR: SP4526116059
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 253017
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
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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