HIGH LODGE AND ATTACHED WALLS

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1052918
Date first listed:: 27-Aug-1957
List Entry Name:: HIGH LODGE AND ATTACHED WALLS
Statutory Address:: HIGH LODGE AND ATTACHED WALLS

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1052918
Date first listed:: 27-Aug-1957
Date of most recent amendment:: 27-Jul-1988
List Entry Name:: HIGH LODGE AND ATTACHED WALLS
Statutory Address 1:: HIGH LODGE AND ATTACHED WALLS

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: HIGH LODGE AND ATTACHED WALLS

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County:: Oxfordshire
District:: West Oxfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Blenheim
National Grid Reference:: SP 43048 15547

Details

BLENHEIM SP41NW 2/18 High Lodge and attached walls 27/08/57 (Formerly listed as High Lodge Blenheim Park Combe, Oxon) - II*

Hunting lodge, now house. c.1768, by Capability Brown. Coursed limestone rubble; hipped Welsh slate roofs. 3-unit plan. Gothick style. Front, of 3-window range, has central 3-storey tower flanked by 2-storey bays. 3-storey canted bay window to centre: 2-light pointed-arched windows with applied wood frames above pointed-arched doorway with studded door. Similar windows in flanking bays. Raised storey and parapet bands; crenellated parapet. Similar windows to sides and rear of tower have sashes with octagonal panes. Porches with crenellated parapets to rear of flanking bays. To rear of tower is pointed arched doorway with studded door, and crenellated walls enclosing yard of approximately 10 x 10 metres. Interior not inspected. Stands on site of medieval lodge. (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, pp30, 32-36)

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Legacy System number:: 253000
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Green, D, Blenheim Palace, (1951), 30, 32-36
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 474
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.