Wells Farmhouse
WELLS FARMHOUSE, GORE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1181956
- Date first listed:
- 25-Oct-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Wells Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- WELLS FARMHOUSE, GORE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1181956
- Date first listed:
- 25-Oct-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Wells Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- WELLS FARMHOUSE, GORE 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:
- WELLS FARMHOUSE, GORE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- South Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Little Milton
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 62012 00839
Details
SP 6200 LITTLE MILTON GORE STREET (East side) 14/81 Wells Farmhouse
- II
Farmhouse, now house. Late C17; front altered c.1800. Limestone rubble with brick dressings; plain-tile roof with brick stacks on stone bases. Central staircase plan plus single-unit range. Main range has symmetrical 3-window front with 4-pane (formerly 16-pane) sashes, 3-course brick quoins to openings, segmental arches on ground floor, and a moulded timber eaves-cove of c.1700. C20 stone porch. Projecting stone breast with diagonal stacks on left gable wall and clustered stacks to right. Low irregular range to right with 3- light casement under brick segmental arch and a horizontal sash above, both with brick quoins. Rear of main range has remains of leaded cross-windows, a central stair window of 3 small lights in an ovolo-mou ded wood frame, and 2 roof dormers. Interior: Main range has dog-leg stair rising to attics with heavy turned balusters, some elaborately moulded beams, moulded wood coves to 2 bedrooms and 2 heavy roof-trusses. Massive stack between ranges flanked by secondary winder stair rising from single unit may be earlier.
Listing NGR: SP6201200841
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 246478
- 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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