Butterfield House
BUTTERFIELD HOUSE, LECHLADE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1053355
- Date first listed:
- 30-Mar-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Butterfield House
- Statutory Address:
- BUTTERFIELD HOUSE, LECHLADE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1053355
- Date first listed:
- 30-Mar-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Butterfield House
- Statutory Address 1:
- BUTTERFIELD HOUSE, LECHLADE ROAD
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:
- BUTTERFIELD HOUSE, LECHLADE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- West Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Little Faringdon
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 22843 01379
Details
LITTLE FARINGDON LECHLADE ROAD (South-east side) SP20SW Butterfield House 1/126 (Formerly listed as Tall chimneys (former Vicarage)) II GV
Rectory, now house. 1867 by William Butterfield. Rock-faced limestone ashlar with ashlar dressings; red machine tile roofs with coped verges on carved stone kneelers. Free Tudor Gothic style; double-depth plan with cross-wing. 2 and 3 storeys with moulded eaves cornice and ground-floor all band to main range and coped parapet to flat-roofed range to right. Irregular fenestration; segmental-headed sash windows, some paired, to left and centre of main range including to hipped eaves dormer to centre. Internal staircase to right lit by rectangular tier of 3 mullioned windows, upper with cinquefoil-headed top-hung casements, blind and with transom to centre and with fixed lights to bottom. Prominent ridge stack to left of dormer and.external end stack to right, both with projecting capping. Projecting gable to right has moulded segmental-headed paired sash window on first floor and window with blind plate tracery to ground floor. Entrance through Tudor-arched boarded double doors with decorative strap hinges in 2-storey, T-shaped, flat-roofed range in angle to right. Parallel rear range similar to front with ridge stacks. Interior. Original staircase rises to attic with slender balusters to open string. Panelled doors throughout. (Buildings of England: Oxfordshire: p685; Paul Thompson; William Butterfield (1971), pp139, 221, 264, 328, 405, 439) [2435]
Listing NGR: SP2284301379
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 253884
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Thompson, P, William Butterfield Victorian Architect, (1971), 139 221
Thompson, P, William Butterfield Victorian Architect, (1971), 264 328
Thompson, P, William Butterfield Victorian Architect, (1971), 405 439
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 685
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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