The Nook

THE NOOK, 17, WHARF ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1181458
Date first listed:
09-Nov-1976
List Entry Name:
The Nook
Statutory Address:
THE NOOK, 17, WHARF ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1181458
Date first listed:
09-Nov-1976
Date of most recent amendment:
14-May-1986
List Entry Name:
The Nook
Statutory Address 1:
THE NOOK, 17, WHARF ROAD

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.

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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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
THE NOOK, 17, WHARF ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Oxfordshire
District:
South Oxfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:
Warborough
National Grid Reference:
SU 59440 92667

Details

WARBOROUGH WHARF ROAD SU5992 (East side) Shillingford 11/197 No.17 (The Nook) 09/11/76 (Formerly listed as No.17 (The Nook), Wharf Lane)

GV II House. Late C16/early C17, extended C18. Rendered timber framing and clunch rubble; old plain-tile roof with brick ridge stacks. 3-unit plan, extended. One storey plus attics. 2-window front has glazed doors and 2-light dormers with ornamental barge boards flanking a central round-headed window with margin lights. A small rubble wing projects to left. Roof is half hipped and has a ridge stack above the central window. Left gable wall, facing road is rubble and has 2 segmental-arched 16-pane sashes. Rear wall has a plaster eaves cove. Interior: Large internal stack has back-to-back open fireplaces with timber bressumers and brick jambs.

Listing NGR: SU5944092667

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
248228
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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