Oakdene
OAKDENE, AXES LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1178334
- Date first listed:
- 26-Apr-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Oakdene
- Statutory Address:
- OAKDENE, AXES LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1178334
- Date first listed:
- 26-Apr-1984
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 19-Oct-2007
- List Entry Name:
- Oakdene
- Statutory Address 1:
- OAKDENE, AXES 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:
- OAKDENE, AXES LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Surrey
- District:
- Reigate and Banstead (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Salfords and Sidlow
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 29311 46501
Details
SALFORDS AND SIDLOW
187/3/10026 AXES LANE 26-APR-84 Oakdene (Formerly listed as: AXES LANE Barn 3 yards west of Cyprus Farmhouse)
II Converted barn, now house. Dated by dendrochronology to c1430.
MATERIALS: Timber framed, weatherboarded, on a replaced brick plinth, gabled shingled roof.
PLAN: 4 bays aligned east-west, the western bay is slightly narrower, but the barn is of one construction.
EXTERIOR: The roof frame appears to be contemporary with the main frame. Attached at right angles to the south of the barn is an early C21 wing which is not of special interest. North and south entrances are both altered, the southern wall partly rebuilt, and with inserted C21 windows and doors.
INTERIOR: The frame has jowled posts at the angles and framing the former entrances, a midrail, and long passing braces at each angle. Wattle slots on north, west and east walls are evidence of former wattle and daub both above and below the middle rail. It has a crown post roof of which the westernmost crownpost is replaced. The crownposts are of square section with square sectioned longitudinal and transverse braces. The roof retains housings of former rafters of the original hipped roof.
HISTORY: The barn formerly belonged to Cyprus Farm, the late C19 farmhouse of which is adjacent to the east. There is no record of a medieval farmstead associated with the barn, but historical records for the area are poor and the Tithe Map ambiguous. The revised date for the barn fits it neatly into the period expected for Surrey barns with long passing braces, the latest true examples being from the later C15.
SOURCES: Dr M C Bridge, The tree-ring dating of timbers from Oakdene, Axes Lane, Salfords, Surrey (May 2007), Oxford Dendrochronology Laboratory.
REASONS FOR DESIGNATION:
* It is a substantially intact medieval barn frame dated to c1430 by dendrochronology. * It retains evidence for the unusual arrangement of wattle and daub above and below the mid rail, and is, unusually for a medieval barn, of four bays.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 289635
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Bridge, M C, The Tree-Ring dating of timbers from Oakdene, Axes Lane, Salfords, Surrey, (2007)
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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