Rectory Farmhouse

RECTORY FARMHOUSE, PIGEON HOUSE LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1052967
Date first listed:
12-Sept-1955
List Entry Name:
Rectory Farmhouse
Statutory Address:
RECTORY FARMHOUSE, PIGEON HOUSE LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1052967
Date first listed:
12-Sept-1955
Date of most recent amendment:
29-Jun-1988
List Entry Name:
Rectory Farmhouse
Statutory Address 1:
RECTORY FARMHOUSE, PIGEON HOUSE LANE

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.

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
RECTORY FARMHOUSE, PIGEON HOUSE LANE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Oxfordshire
District:
West Oxfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:
Hanborough
National Grid Reference:
SP 42610 12811

Details

HANBOROUGH PIGEON HOUSE LANE SP4212 (North side) Church Hanborough 24/160 Rectory Farmhouse 12/09/55 (Formerly listed as Rectory Farmhouse and Barn) GV II Farmhouse, now house. Mid/late C16, with substantial C17 and early C18 alterations; wing on left, probably early C18, altered and possibly truncated in 1860s. Coursed limestone rubble; gabled stone slate roofs; C17 end stacks of stone finished in brick to right, and brick end stack to left. L-plan, with wing attached to left of older range. Of 2 storeys, with attic storey to left; 3-window range. C20 door adjoins right wing: C20 porch and verandah. Timber lintels over C19 eight-pane sashes and mid C19 French window to left. 2-storey right side wall has C19 casements. C19 service extension to rear. Interior: range to right has very thick walls, with C16 blacked pointed-1089arched doorway on first floor to left and some C17 stop-chamfered beams and collar trusses with butt purlins. Mid C19 straight-flight staircase.

Listing NGR: SP4261012811

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
252816
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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