Abbots Close
ABBOTS CLOSE, GORE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1181999
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jul-1963
- List Entry Name:
- Abbots Close
- Statutory Address:
- ABBOTS CLOSE, GORE STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1181999
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jul-1963
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 25-Oct-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Abbots Close
- Statutory Address 1:
- ABBOTS CLOSE, 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:
- ABBOTS CLOSE, 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 61911 00807
Details
SP 6100 LITTLE MILTON GORE STREET (West side) 13/87 Abbots Close 18/07/63 Formerly listed as House 30 metres west-south-west of Post Office) GV II
House. Early C17. Coursed limestone rubble; old plain-tile roof with brick ridge-stacks. T-plan at right-angles to road. 2 storeys plus attics. 2- window front of 3-light ovolo-moulded stone-mullioned windows except for 2- light window to left of door. All have leaded lights. Central C20 door in moulded 4-centre stone surround with recessed spandrels. 4-light stone-mullioned windows in right gable wall and to right of rear wing. Dovecote in left gable. Central stack at junction of roofs with 4 diagonal shafts in line. Interior: 4 Tudor-arched stone fireplaces in rectangular moulded surrounds. Reported to have gable-trusses. (V.C.H. Oxfordshire VII p.121; Oxoniensia Vol 25 pp55-6; Buildings of England Oxfordshire p.688)
Listing NGR: SP6190900810
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 246484
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1962), 121
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 688
Oxoniensia in Oxoniensia, Vol. 25, (), 55-56
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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