Tower and Wall Approximately 20 Metres North East of Rycote House
TOWER AND WALL APPROXIMATELY 20 METRES NORTH EAST OF RYCOTE HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1180716
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jul-1963
- List Entry Name:
- Tower and Wall Approximately 20 Metres North East of Rycote House
- Statutory Address:
- TOWER AND WALL APPROXIMATELY 20 METRES NORTH EAST OF RYCOTE HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1180716
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jul-1963
- List Entry Name:
- Tower and Wall Approximately 20 Metres North East of Rycote House
- Statutory Address 1:
- TOWER AND WALL APPROXIMATELY 20 METRES NORTH EAST OF RYCOTE HOUSE
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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:
- TOWER AND WALL APPROXIMATELY 20 METRES NORTH EAST OF RYCOTE HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- South Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Great Haseley
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 66695 04739
Details
GREAT HASELEY RYCOTE SP6OSE 6/72 Tower and wall approx. 20m. NE 18/07/63 of Rycote House
GV II*
Tower and wall. Early C16. Diaper brickwork with stone dressings. 2-storey octagonal tower, with stone quoins, moulded strings and copings, has small 4-centre arched windows with labels and a richly-moulded 4-centred arched doorway. Attached wall to right has the re-set remains of a stone doorcase of c.1700 with eared architrave and carved surround including lion-mask consoles and festoons. To right the wall breaks forward with an octagonal angle buttress. The remnant of the main block of the mansion probably re-built after 1521 by Sir John Heron, Treasurer to Henry VIII, and/or after 1539 by Sir John William later Baron Williams of Thame. The house is shown in views of c.1695 by Winstanley and of 1714 by Kip. It was burned down in 1745. (J. Salmon, Rycote Chapel, MPBW Guidebook, 1967; Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, pp.748-9).
Listing NGR: SP6669504740
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 246838
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 748-9
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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