Kencot Cottage With Attached Railings, Gate, Outbuildings and Pump
KENCOT COTTAGE WITH ATTACHED RAILINGS, GATE, OUTBUILDINGS AND PUMP
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1053504
- Date first listed:
- 12-Sept-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Kencot Cottage With Attached Railings, Gate, Outbuildings and Pump
- Statutory Address:
- KENCOT COTTAGE WITH ATTACHED RAILINGS, GATE, OUTBUILDINGS AND PUMP
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- Date:
- 2001-09-09
- Reference:
- IOE01/05573/06
- Rights:
- © Dr Robert Slade. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1053504
- Date first listed:
- 12-Sept-1955
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 04-May-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Kencot Cottage With Attached Railings, Gate, Outbuildings and Pump
- Statutory Address 1:
- KENCOT COTTAGE WITH ATTACHED RAILINGS, GATE, OUTBUILDINGS AND PUMP
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:
- KENCOT COTTAGE WITH ATTACHED RAILINGS, GATE, OUTBUILDINGS AND PUMP
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- West Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Kencot
- National Grid Reference:
- SP2547904752
Details
SP2404-2504 KENCOT
8/222 Kencot Cottage with attached
12/09/55 railings, gate, outbuildings
and pump
(Formerly listed as The
Cottage)
GV II
House, with attached pump, railings and outbuildings. House is C17-early C18 in
origin, altered C17. Rubble limestone, faced with roughcast, with stone slate
roof. Ridge chimneys to gables and to right of centre all rebuilt C20 in dressed
stone. Outshot plan with off-centre rear stair turret. 2 storeys and attic, 3
bays. C19 3-light wooden casements with horizontal glazing bars and wooden
lintels; 2 hipped roof dormers with similar 2-light casements. Between right
bays is a 6-panelled top-lit door in C20 rustic wooden porch. Rear stair turret
has hipped roof and tall window. Attached to front are early-mid C19 cast and
wrought iron railings on ashlar dwarf walls with chamfered coping. Railings have
spearhead finials, and main standard posts have scrolled acanthus finials.
Matching gate. Attached to north end of house is a range of outbuildings,
comprising former stable, coach house and small barn. Range is of various
C18-mid C19 builds. Left part is of slobbered limestone rubble with C20 concrete
tile roof, and has 2-light wooden casement and loft door at left end, stable
door, and C20 double doors to coach house. Barn to right, now part of Home Farm,
is of rubble stone banded with dressed stone and has Welsh slate roof. This has
blocked doorway, and dovecote with ledges in right gable end. Attached to front
wall of stable is a mid-late C19 cast iron water pump with handle and stone
trough. Pump has brass plaque inscribed with text from St. John and date 1897.
Listing NGR: SP2547904752
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 253534
- 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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