The Hermitage
3, CHURCH GREEN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1053083
- Date first listed:
- 14-May-1952
- List Entry Name:
- The Hermitage
- Statutory Address:
- 3, CHURCH GREEN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1053083
- Date first listed:
- 14-May-1952
- List Entry Name:
- The Hermitage
- Statutory Address 1:
- 3, CHURCH GREEN
- Statutory Address 2:
- THE HERMITAGE, 5, 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:
- 3, CHURCH GREEN
- Statutory Address:
- THE HERMITAGE, 5, 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:
- SP3564609502
Details
WITNEY CHURCH GREEN
SP3509N, SP3509S (East side)
10/19, 11/19 Nos. 3 and 5 (The Hermitage)
14/05/52
GV II*
House, now office, dwelling and 3 flats. Early C16; late C17 alterations.
Coursed limestone rubble; gabled stone slate roof; end stacks of stone (right)
and stone finished in C20 brick (left); front and rear lateral stacks of stone
finished in C18 brick. 3-unit through-passage plan with rear right wing. 2
storeys and attic: symmetrical 5-window range. Mid C19 Gothic doorways to left
and centre, with cornices over pointed chamfered arches (blocked to centre).
Doorway to right has 4-centred arch with foliate spandrels and strapwork-carved
brackets to broken cornice: mid C19 Gothic door. Hood mould over sunk-chamfered
stone-mullioned and transomed window to left and pediments over similar windows
to right: hood moulds over similar mullioned 3-light windows on first floor.
Rear: hollow-chamfered light, 4-centred chamfered archway to passage. C17
timber-framed roof dormer and stair-turret with 2-light stone-mullioned
hollow-chamfered windows. Rear right wing: early C16, remodelled late C17 and
C20: of similar materials: 2 storeys and attic: 5-window range with 2 similar
2-light mullioned windows: C16 gabled timber-framed dormer with 4-light
wood-mullioned window and turned pendentives. Rear of No.3 (to left) has similar
2-light mullioned window and mid/late C18 two-storey wing with sash and C19
casements. Interior: early C16 rear right wing has stop-chamfered beams and
queen-post roof. with arch-braced collar-truss to front. Front range has late
C17 collar-truss roof with butt purlins and side struts: C16 moulded stone
fireplace and C16 pointed-chamfered doorway to stair-turret, which has winder
stairs. No.3 not inspected but likely to be of interest.
(National Monuments Record)
Listing NGR: SP3564609502
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 252589
- 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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