Dawbers House
DAWBERS HOUSE, WILSON CLOSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1181216
- Date first listed:
- 04-Nov-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Dawbers House
- Statutory Address:
- DAWBERS HOUSE, WILSON CLOSE
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- Date:
- 2002-06-24
- Reference:
- IOE01/07632/07
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1181216
- Date first listed:
- 04-Nov-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Dawbers House
- Statutory Address 1:
- DAWBERS HOUSE, WILSON CLOSE
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:
- DAWBERS HOUSE, WILSON CLOSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- South Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Long Wittenham
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 54406 93698
Details
LONG WITTENHAM WILSONS CLOSE SU5493 (East side) 9/104 Dawber's House
GV II
House. c.1911, date on left gable end of garden front. By Guy Dawber for himself. Red brick; complex old plain-tile roof; brick stacks. Complex plan. 2-storey, 4-window range. Sash door to centre with wood architrave surround with pediment. Irregular fenestration of metal leaded casements. End and lateral stacks with moulded brick bases and caps. Rear: central loggia under catslide roof with gabled cross-wings to left and right. Interior: moulded plaster border to entrance hall ceiling. Straight flight and winder stairs with lattice balustrade. Sitting room to left has shallow arched ceiling with moulded plaster bands and border. Georgian-style stone fireplace. Study, originally dining room, to rear right has deeply ribbed wood ceiling. Artisan-style stone fireplace with bronze medallions. Fitted sideboard to window recess with later doors to base. Original panelled doors with brass door furniture. (Lawrence Weaver: Small Country Houses of Today, Vol.2, 1922, p.109-114; Country Life, January 3rd, 1914, p.7-11).
Listing NGR: SU5440693698
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 248717
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Country Life in 3 January, (1914)
Weaver, L, Small Country Houses of Today in Small Country Houses of Today, Vol. 2, (1922), 109-114
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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