Lower House
LOWER HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1053374
- Date first listed:
- 30-Mar-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Lower House
- Statutory Address:
- LOWER HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1053374
- Date first listed:
- 30-Mar-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Lower House
- Statutory Address 1:
- LOWER HOUSE
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:
- LOWER HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- West Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Kelmscott
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 24945 99096
Details
KELMSCOTT SU2499-2599 10/72 Lower House GV II
Farmhouse, now house. Late C17 with minor later additions and alterations. Roughly coursed limestone rubble; stone slate roof with moulded coped verges and kneelers. L-plan with low range to rear on right. 2 storeys and attic with moulded wooden eaves cornice interrupted by central gabled full dormer with stop-chamfered stone dripmould at eaves level and dripmould above 2-light mullion window. Moulded coped verges with kneelers and ball finial to apex. 5-window front; chamfered leaded cross windows with continuous dripmould to ground floor. Gabled 2-light leaded dormers in middle of roof slope to left and right. Central entrance; 6-panel door in moulded stone surround with rectangular overlight under flat wooden hood with elaborately carved scrolled brackets. Integral end stacks with moulded capping and bases. Lean-to attached to rear of rear range. Interior. Not inspected at time of resurvey (May 1987) but likely to be of interest. (Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, p667) [2367]
Listing NGR: SU2494599096
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 253824
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 667
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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