Lew House
LEW HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1053511
- Date first listed:
- 04-May-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Lew House
- Statutory Address:
- LEW HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1053511
- Date first listed:
- 04-May-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Lew House
- Statutory Address 1:
- LEW 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:
- LEW HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- West Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Lew
- National Grid Reference:
- SP3258106385
Details
SP 30 NW LEW
3/241 Lew House
GV II
House. C17 in origin, with later extensions, one wing dated 1AF 1786 on tablet;
remodelled and further extended 1909 by John Belcher. Mostly of coursed rubble
limestone, the 1786 wing with dressed stone gable and gable copings. Stone slate
roofs, rubble stone chimneys with moulded cornices. Complex plan with original part
in north corner, C18 and altered early C19 wings extending to south-west, and 1909
extensions to south-east. 2 storeys and attic. 1909 fenestration in late C17
style, with wood mullion windows, cross windows and leaded glazing. North-west
entrance front has C17 part set back to left. This has 3 bays of cross windows, a
heavy bracketed wooden eaves cornice of 1909, and a cruciform chimney. To right of
this is a projecting gabled bay with 3-light windows and ashlar porch of 1909.
Porch has double doors, large semi-circular arched hood on Doric columns, and
heraldic crest in typanum. A narrow bay of 2-light casements separates this from
the 1786 wing, also projecting and gabled, which has cross windows with flat stone
arches and keyblocks. Irregular service wing to far right, part formerly out-
buildings, has attached range of thatched kennels. Interior: C17 part has panelled
room in late C17 style, possibly original in part but probably of 1909.
Listing NGR: SP3258106385
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 253552
- 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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