Hamlet House
HAMLET HOUSE, 1-4
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1059731
- Date first listed:
- 03-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Hamlet House
- Statutory Address:
- HAMLET HOUSE, 1-4
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- Date:
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1059731
- Date first listed:
- 03-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Hamlet House
- Statutory Address 1:
- HAMLET HOUSE, 1-4
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:
- HAMLET HOUSE, 1-4
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- South Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Pyrton
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 67471 98464
Details
PYRTON CLARE SU69NE 4/138 Nos.1 to 4 (consecutive) (Hamlet House)
GV II
Farmhouse, now 2 dwellings. Late C16/early C17, remodelled and extended c.1740. Originally timber-framed: light timber framing on left side of rear wing. Front of mid C18 English bond brick: right side wall of chalk rubble. Gabled C20 and old tile roof; brick end and ridge stacks, and large C17 ridge stack. L-plan with right wing. 2 storeys; 5-window range. C20 door and porch to left, cambered arch over C20 door to right, Similar arches over C20 two-light casements, including 2 to left in rebuilt openings; timber lintels over similar first floor casements except two C19 casements to right. Early C19 ranges to rear. Mid C18 two-storey rear left wing of English bond brick with gabled old tile roof and C20 rear bay. Interior: chamfered ogee-stopped beams; mid C18 dog-leg with winders staircase to rear has turned balusters on closed string: rear wall has exposed timber framing. Roof and section to right not inspected but likely to be of interest. The house is shown on estate maps of 1730 and 1735, when it was owned by the Franklin family who paid for 5 hearths in Clare in 1665. It was converted and extended as 6 cottages in the early C19. There are remains of a deserted medieval settlement in the area. (V.C.H.: Oxfordshire, Vol.VIII, p.141).
Listing NGR: SU6747198464
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 248984
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1964), 141
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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