White Cottage
WHITE COTTAGE, 42, CHAPEL STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1180810
- Date first listed:
- 11-Dec-1985
- List Entry Name:
- White Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- WHITE COTTAGE, 42, CHAPEL STREET
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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/03071/03
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1180810
- Date first listed:
- 11-Dec-1985
- List Entry Name:
- White Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- WHITE COTTAGE, 42, CHAPEL STREET
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 COTTAGE, 42, CHAPEL STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- South Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Watlington
- National Grid Reference:
- SU6878894691
Details
SU6894
6/126
WATLINGTON
CHAPEL STREET
(East side)
No.42 (White Cottage)
GV
II
Two cottages, now house. Two ranges: C15/early C16, remodelled in C17 and late
C18 to right; mid C18 to left. English bond brick on flint base to left:
cruck-framed range to right, clad in flint rubble with late C18 brick quoins and
vertical strips. Gabled roof, thatched and old tile to left, thatch to right;
C19 brick left end stack and C17 brick ridge stack. C15 open hall, with C17
floor inserted and with mid C18 two-unit range added. One storey and attic.
2-window range to left has segmental arches over C20 ground-floor casements, and
C20 half-dormer casements: leaded fire-window to right. One-window range to
right has flat brick arch over C20 two-light casement, and 2-light leaded dormer
casement. C20 door to rear. Interior: ogee-stopped beams to left. Quarter-turn
stairs adjoining stack. 3-bay raised cruck roof with curved windbraces and smoke
blackening in right range, with chamfered beam of inserted floor.
Listing NGR: SU6878894691
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 247598
- 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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