Hardwick House
HARDWICK HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1180567
- Date first listed:
- 24-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Hardwick House
- Statutory Address:
- HARDWICK HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1180567
- Date first listed:
- 24-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Hardwick House
- Statutory Address 1:
- HARDWICK HOUSE
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:
- HARDWICK HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- South Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Whitchurch-on-Thames
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 65933 77732
Details
WHITCHURCH SU67NE 9/203 Hardwick House 24/10/51
GV I
Country House. Probably early C16; wing of mid C17, with C18, C19 and C20 alterations. Flint base; red brick; plain tile roof; brick stacks. Complex plan. Tudor style. 2 storeys and attic; 8-window range. Central part-glazed studded C19 door with stone surround with 4-centred arch, trefoil carving to spandrels and hood mould. Irregular fenestration, mostly stone mullioned windows; stone cross-windows to mid C17 cross-wing to left; C19 angled 2-storey bay window to right. Cross-gables to attic with mullioned windows. Complex roof. Diagonally set stacks to centre and right. Rectangular stacks with panelled sides to left. Left hand return: 2 storeys and attic; 4-window range. Stone cross windows with hood moulds to all openings. Flat brick bands between ground and first floor, and first floor and attic. 3 cross-gables to attic, with 2-light stone mullion window to each, with blind round panel above. C18 tower to rear with oval windows and ogee lead dome. Interior: Dining room, ground floor left has rococo plasterwork of c.1750. C19 open well Tudor-style staircase. Room to first floor right late C16. Plaster ceiling with pendant bosses and portrait heads in medallions of Joshua, Julius Caesar, Fame and Elizabeth 1st (?). Frieze with strapwork decoration. Panelled walls with blind arcading and pilasters. Fireplace of chalk; overmantel panel depicts the sacrifice of Isaac. History: House probably built by Richard Lybbe, who purchased the Manor from the Hardwick family in 1526. South wing rebuilt c.1660 to replace part of the house damaged by bombardment by Cromwell's troops during the Civil War. Large late C19 additions, recently demolished. (Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, p.839-840).
Listing NGR: SU6593377732
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 247421
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 839-840
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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