Greys Court, Great Tower, Attached Ruined Tower and Walls Approximately 60 Metres East
GREYS COURT, GREAT TOWER, ATTACHED RUINED TOWER AND WALLS APPROXIMATELY 60 METRES EAST
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1181246
- Date first listed:
- 24-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Greys Court, Great Tower, Attached Ruined Tower and Walls Approximately 60 Metres East
- Statutory Address:
- GREYS COURT, GREAT TOWER, ATTACHED RUINED TOWER AND WALLS APPROXIMATELY 60 METRES EAST
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1181246
- Date first listed:
- 24-Oct-1951
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 13-Feb-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Greys Court, Great Tower, Attached Ruined Tower and Walls Approximately 60 Metres East
- Statutory Address 1:
- GREYS COURT, GREAT TOWER, ATTACHED RUINED TOWER AND WALLS APPROXIMATELY 60 METRES EAST
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:
- GREYS COURT, GREAT TOWER, ATTACHED RUINED TOWER AND WALLS APPROXIMATELY 60 METRES EAST
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- South Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Rotherfield Greys
- National Grid Reference:
- SU7254683427
Details
SU78SW
6/125
24/10/51
ROTHERFIELD GREYS
Greys Court, Great Tower, attached ruined tower and walls approx 60 metres east.
(Formerly listed as Greys Court including Batchelors Hall, The Well House, and Towers NE, NW and SW of house)
GV
I
Two towers with linking curtain wall and wall to north and south. C14. Flint
with stone quoins and patches of brick; top of Great Tower coursed with brick.
Square plan towers with angle buttresses to corners. Great tower has 2-
centre arched doorway to ground and first floor west side. Irregular
fenestration of window openings to towers and walls. Brick flat-arched
fireplace to linking wall. History: Licence to crenellate granted in 1347 to
Sir John de Grey.
(Buildings of England : Oxfordshire, pp.735-7; Greys Court National Trust Guide
book, 1982).
Listing NGR: SU7254683427
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 247147
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Greys Court, (1982)
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974)
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 34 Oxfordshire
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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