St Mary's Close
1, FARM MILL LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1053045
- Date first listed:
- 06-Feb-1970
- List Entry Name:
- St Mary's Close
- Statutory Address:
- 1, FARM MILL LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1053045
- Date first listed:
- 06-Feb-1970
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 03-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- St Mary's Close
- Statutory Address 1:
- 1, FARM MILL LANE
- Statutory Address 2:
- ST MARY'S CLOSE, 27, CHURCH GREEN
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:
- 1, FARM MILL LANE
- Statutory Address:
- ST MARY'S CLOSE, 27, CHURCH GREEN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- West Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Witney
- National Grid Reference:
- SP3568509346
Details
WITNEY CHURCH GREEN
SP3509S (East side)
11/27 No.27 (St. Mary's Close)
06/02/70 (Formerly listed as No.27
(Marriot's Close). Wing, to
south of No.27)
GV II
Includes No.1, Farm Mill Lane.
House, now 2 dwellings. Mid C18 (c.1730); mid C19 alterations. Limestone ashlar
front with rusticated ground floor; coursed rubble to sides and rear. Hipped
-tone slate roof; end stacks of stone finished in brick. Central-staircase plan.
2 storeys and attic; symmetrical 5-window range. Mid C19 panelled double-leaf
door with fanlight set in keyed arch and open-pedimented architrave with scroll
brackets. Mid C19 plate-glass sashes set in keyed and raised architraves. Raised
storey band; moulded cornice to parapet; 2 hipped roof dormers with C20
three-light casements. Rear: mid C19 extension (for stairs) adjoins rear right
wing with late C19 bay window. Interior: hall has mid C18 panelled doors set in
fine pedimented architraves. Room to left has fine fielded panelling and
fireplace, with fluted pilasters and bolection-moulded overmantle. Fine dog-leg
with landing staircase to rear, of c.1730 but remodelled mid C19, has turned
balusters and ramped handrail. Quarter-turn service stairs to right.
First-floor: room to right has panelled dado and panelled overmantle over
moulded stone fireplace. C17 quartered chamfered beams to right. Butt-purlin
roof. C18 two-window range to right has 6-panelled door and C19 casements in
raised architraves. Wing at right angles to right: late C18, of similar
materials with hipped roof to front; of one storey and attic; 3-window range
with C20 door and casements and gabled half dormers; plank doors to coach house
at front; left has Gothick 2-light leaded casements and panelled door with
Sothick overlight.
Listing NGR: SP3568509346
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 252598
- 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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