Downs Hollow
DOWNS HOLLOW, A361
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1053343
- Date first listed:
- 15-May-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Downs Hollow
- Statutory Address:
- DOWNS HOLLOW, A361
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1053343
- Date first listed:
- 15-May-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Downs Hollow
- Statutory Address 1:
- DOWNS HOLLOW, A361
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:
- DOWNS HOLLOW, A361
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- West Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Churchill
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 31503 24572
Details
CHURCHILL A361 SP32SW (West side) 8/45 Downs Hollow
- II
Entrance lodge. Circa 1830, probably by 6.S. Repton for James Houghton Langston; extended late C20. Roughly coursed limestone rubble with ashlar dressings; stone slate roofs with moulded coped verges. Double-depth plan with 2 gables to front Tudor Gothic style. 2 storeys. Two recessed chamfered 2-light mullion windows linked by continuous hoodmould incorporating recessed blank armorial shield to centre on first floor and cross-windows with dripstones to left and right on ground floor. Central gabled ashlar porch with corbel table and half-glazed door in outer shouldered arch. Small ogee-arched gable between 2 gables, right of which slightly projects. Valley stacks to left and right each have 3 detached diagonal shafts with moulded capping. 2-bay returns with recess for downpipe to centre have 2-light mullions linked by continuous hoodmoulds continued from front to first floor and segmental-headed mullioned and transomed bay windows in 3 lights to ground floor. All windows and door have leaded latticed lights. The house is the former lodge to The Dower House (q.v.). (formerly Sarsgrove Cottage) built for Langston by Repton in c.1825. Late C20 extension to rear is not of special architectural interest. [2487]
Listing NGR: SP3150324572
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 253947
- 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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