STONE SLAB FENCE CIRCA 12 METRES TO NORTH WEST OF NUMBER 1 THE GASSONS (NOT INCLUDED)

STONE SLAB FENCE CIRCA 12 METRES TO NORTH WEST OF NUMBER 1 THE GASSONS (NOT INCLUDED), VILLAGE STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1053533
Date first listed:: 04-May-1989
List Entry Name:: STONE SLAB FENCE CIRCA 12 METRES TO NORTH WEST OF NUMBER 1 THE GASSONS (NOT INCLUDED)
Statutory Address:: STONE SLAB FENCE CIRCA 12 METRES TO NORTH WEST OF NUMBER 1 THE GASSONS (NOT INCLUDED), VILLAGE STREET

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Date:: 2001-09-09
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1053533
Date first listed:: 04-May-1989
List Entry Name:: STONE SLAB FENCE CIRCA 12 METRES TO NORTH WEST OF NUMBER 1 THE GASSONS (NOT INCLUDED)
Statutory Address 1:: STONE SLAB FENCE CIRCA 12 METRES TO NORTH WEST OF NUMBER 1 THE GASSONS (NOT INCLUDED), VILLAGE STREET

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: STONE SLAB FENCE CIRCA 12 METRES TO NORTH WEST OF NUMBER 1 THE GASSONS (NOT INCLUDED), VILLAGE STREET

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:: SP2386004270

Details

SP2204-2304 FILKINS AND BROUGHTON POGGS VILLAGE STREET (South-east side) Filkins 7/208 Stone slab fence c.12m to NW of No.1 The Gassons (not included)

GV II Fence. Probably early C19. Limestone slabs, squared and placed on edge in a row, c.one metre high. These large slabs, known as planks, were quarried locally for use in fences, stiles, door hoods, and floors, and form a distinctive feature of the village. Similar slab fences were noted by Robert Plot in his "Natural History of Oxfordshire", 1677.

Listing NGR: SP2386004270

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Legacy System:: LBS

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Plot, R, The Natural History of Oxfordshire, (1677)

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.