Combe House and Attached Wall
COMBE HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1053003
- Date first listed:
- 27-Aug-1957
- List Entry Name:
- Combe House and Attached Wall
- Statutory Address:
- COMBE HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALL
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1053003
- Date first listed:
- 27-Aug-1957
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 29-Jun-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Combe House and Attached Wall
- Statutory Address 1:
- COMBE HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALL
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:
- COMBE HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- West Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Combe
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 41349 15843
Details
COMBE SP4115 17/48 Combe House and attached wall 27/08/57 (Formerly listed as Combe House) GV II Rectory, now house. Early C17 to rear; mainly c.1812. Coursed limestone rubble, with dressed stone and ashlar to front; gabled stone slate roofs, with some Welsh slate; moulded Georgian-style end and lateral stone ashlar stacks. Courtyard plan. Early C19 Tudor/Gothick Revival style. 2-storey, 3-window range front. 2-light stone-mullioned and cinquefoil-headed windows with 4-pane sashes; similar windows in 2-storey canted bay to left. Label moulds continued as string course beneath parapet. Similar bay window and attached doorway in right gable end. Similar windows in parapeted gable end of wing to right, which has early C19 label moulds over 2 plank doors, and early C19 mullioned windows. Wing to left has segmental-arched stair-windows, and early C19 label moulds over C20 windows. Crenellated parapets to side wings. Rear wing has crow-stepped gables, an early C19 two-centred arched doorway; hood moulds over C17 five-light leaded ovolo-moulded stone-mullioned window and similar early C19 four-light windows. Interior: dog-leg staircase to left with stick balusters. Gothick plaster cornices and stone fireplaces. Panelled doors. C17 chamfered beams and collar-truss roof in rear wing. Subsidiary features: L-shaped wall attached to rear left corner, of limestone rubble with ashlar coping, is approximately 27 x 87 metres. (Buildings of England: Oxfordshire: pp552-3; National Monuments Record)
Listing NGR: SP4134915843
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 252702
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 552-3
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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