White Cross House
WHITE CROSS HOUSE, READING ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1059290
- Date first listed:
- 13-Jan-1986
- List Entry Name:
- White Cross House
- Statutory Address:
- WHITE CROSS HOUSE, READING ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1059290
- Date first listed:
- 13-Jan-1986
- List Entry Name:
- White Cross House
- Statutory Address 1:
- WHITE CROSS HOUSE, READING ROAD
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:
- WHITE CROSS HOUSE, READING ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- South Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Wallingford
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 60469 88143
Details
SU 68 NW CHOLSEY READING ROAD
(East side)
1060/3/88
White Cross House
II
House. Mid C18 with C19 additions and alterations. Grey brick with red brick
dressings; old plain-tile hipped roof; various brick stacks. 2 storeys and
attic. 3-window range. Sash door to centre with Gothick panelling to base. C19
square brick battlemented porch with 4-centred stone arch with trefoil carving
to spandrels and hood mould with carved end stops. 2-storey angled bays to left
and right with stone mullion and transom windows with hood moulds and carved
end-stops. Flat brick band between ground and first floor. Stone cross-window to
first floor centre. Hood-mould. Stone mullion and transom windows to bays to
left and right with hood moulds. Flat brick band below battlemented parapet to
eaves. 3 gabled dormers to roof.
Right hand wing has an inset stone plaque, at eaves level, inscribed "The free Land Extends two feet to the southward of this building 1774". Interior: Hall has the unusual survival of a mid C18 Chinese Chippendale full height stair; late C18/early C19 doors of6 fielded panels with panelled frame soffits. left hand front room contains panels of Gothic blind tracery used as cupboards and dado; carved timber Gothic pelmet to bay window. Right hand front room with C18 fire surround and cornice; alcoves to either side of fire filled with curious small cupboards, each with a panelled door. Rear right hand room with late C18/ earlyC19 enriched cornice and moulded plaster Adam style frieze. Kitchen to left has tall plain fire surround and built in plain panelled cupboards to right; door with 6 fielded panels and HL hinges. Upper rooms retain various C18 and C19 fireplaces and doors. Cellar retains an C18 lattice larder door with HL hinges. C19 extensions to left and right; red brick with grey brick headers in Flemish bond; plain-tile roof.
2-storey single window ranges with mullion and transom windows. C19 single
storey and attic cross-gabled extensions to left and right ends.
Listing NGR: SU6046988143
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 247972
- 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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