Barton Abbey, Stables and Attached Wall and Gateway Approximately 27 Metres North West of Front Porch and Attached to Barton Abbey
BARTON ABBEY, STABLES AND ATTACHED WALL AND GATEWAY APPROXIMATELY 27 METRES NORTH WEST OF FRONT PORCH AND ATTACHED TO BARTON ABBEY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1052929
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jun-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Barton Abbey, Stables and Attached Wall and Gateway Approximately 27 Metres North West of Front Porch and Attached to Barton Abbey
- Statutory Address:
- BARTON ABBEY, STABLES AND ATTACHED WALL AND GATEWAY APPROXIMATELY 27 METRES NORTH WEST OF FRONT PORCH AND ATTACHED TO BARTON ABBEY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1052929
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jun-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Barton Abbey, Stables and Attached Wall and Gateway Approximately 27 Metres North West of Front Porch and Attached to Barton Abbey
- Statutory Address 1:
- BARTON ABBEY, STABLES AND ATTACHED WALL AND GATEWAY APPROXIMATELY 27 METRES NORTH WEST OF FRONT PORCH AND ATTACHED TO BARTON ABBEY
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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
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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:
- BARTON ABBEY, STABLES AND ATTACHED WALL AND GATEWAY APPROXIMATELY 27 METRES NORTH WEST OF FRONT PORCH AND ATTACHED TO BARTON ABBEY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- West Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Steeple Barton
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 45264 24984
Details
STEEPLE BARTON SP42SE 4/264 Barton Abbey, stables and attached wall and gateway approx.27m NW of front porch and attached to Barton Abbey GV II Stables, now outbuilding. Late C17, remodelled mid C19. Coursed limestone rubble with squared and ashlar dressings; gabled stone-coped stone slate roof; late C17 moulded stone ridge stack and similar mid C19 left end stack. 2 storeys; 4-window range. Steps descend to 3 doorways with flat stone arches. Label moulds over mid C19 hollow-moulded stone-mullioned and arch-headed 2-light windows. Roof surmounted by belfry with pyramidal lead roof and weathercock. C17 chamfered round-arched doorway and hollow-moulded arched light to rear. Subsidiary features: limestone rubble wall with moulded coping, and Tudor-style archway with moulded cornice, extends approximately 55 metres from front of right corner. Stables have reset medieval mouldings, probably taken from former manor house of Sesswells Barton which stood nearby. (Buildings of England: Oxfordshire: p788; VCH: Oxfordshire: Vol XI, p64)
Listing NGR: SP4526424984
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 252918
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1983), 64
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 788
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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