Saxons Close
SAXONS CLOSE, 1-4, ROUSES LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1053531
- Date first listed:
- 14-Nov-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Saxons Close
- Statutory Address:
- SAXONS CLOSE, 1-4, ROUSES LANE
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- Date:
- 2001-09-01
- Reference:
- IOE01/05203/03
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1053531
- Date first listed:
- 14-Nov-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Saxons Close
- Statutory Address 1:
- SAXONS CLOSE, 1-4, ROUSES LANE
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:
- SAXONS CLOSE, 1-4, ROUSES LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- West Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Filkins and Broughton Poggs
- National Grid Reference:
- SP2379704319
Details
SP2204-2304 FILKINS AND BROUGHTON POGGS ROUSES LANE
(North-east side)
Filkins
7/189 Nos. 1-4 (consec), Saxons Close
14/11/83
GV II
Row of 4 council houses. Dated 1929 on tablet in central gable. By Morley
Horder. Coursed rubble limestone with ashlar dressings, stone slate roofs and
stone chimneys. In Cotswold vernacular style. One storey and attic. Long
symmetrical range with 3 gables to front and central through-passage, 2 and
3-light unmoulded stone mullion windows with leaded glazing, the ground floor
with 10 windows, the attics with 2 windows to each gable. Passage has depressed
stone arch in Tudor style, moulded and stopped, with moulded spandrels and Tudor
hoodmould. Passage has entries to centre houses; end houses have gable-end
doorways with flat stone hoods on brackets. Said to be the earliest example of
the use of traditional materials for council houses. The choice of style was
that of Sir Stafford Cripps who lived in the village, and who paid for the
difference in cost of the extra labour and materials required. The intention was
to integrate the council houses both visually and socially into the life of a
picturesque village. Later council housing in Bulls Close, Filkins, and in
Burford and Kelmscott, was to follow this example.
Listing NGR: SP2379704319
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 253500
- 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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