Fox Cottage
FOX COTTAGE, WEST STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1053306
- Date first listed:
- 15-May-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Fox Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- FOX COTTAGE, WEST STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1053306
- Date first listed:
- 15-May-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Fox Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- FOX COTTAGE, WEST STREET
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:
- FOX COTTAGE, WEST STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- West Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Kingham
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 25898 24081
Details
KINGHAM WEST STREET SP2424-2524 (North-west side) 15/157 Fox Cottage
GV II
House. Early C18 with later additions and alterations. Roughly coursed and banded limestone and marlstone rubble with alternating angle quoins; stone slate roof with coped verges. 2 storeys and gable-lit attic. 3-window front; C18 leaded casements with chamfered wood lintels and stepped ogee stops to first floor and with wedged voussoirs to ground floor. Central C20 half-glazed door also with wedged voussoirs. Integral ashlar end stacks with moulded dripstones and capping. Small paired lancet window, said to have been brought from Kingham Manor House, demolished in 1920's to right gable end attic. 2-storey lean-to to rear on left with late C20 flat-roofed extension (not of special architectural interest) attached and C19 single-storey gabled range at right-angles to rear on right. Interior. Central cross passage. Right ground-floor room has 2 chamfered cross beams with run-out stops. Inglenook fireplace with chamfered wood lintel and position of oak winder staircase (surviving from first floor to attic) visible to right. Left room has plastered spine beam, cornice and wood dado rail. Chamfered ceiling beams on first floor and collar truss roof in 3 bays with double butt-purlins to attic. [2606]
Listing NGR: SP2589824081
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 254060
- 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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