SOMERSET COTTAGE AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, AND THE OLD CHAPEL

SOMERSET COTTAGE AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, SUMMERSIDE ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1182021
Date first listed:: 15-Jan-1986
List Entry Name:: SOMERSET COTTAGE AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, AND THE OLD CHAPEL
Statutory Address:: SOMERSET COTTAGE AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, SUMMERSIDE ROAD

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Date:: 2003-11-13
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1182021
Date first listed:: 15-Jan-1986
List Entry Name:: SOMERSET COTTAGE AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, AND THE OLD CHAPEL
Statutory Address 1:: SOMERSET COTTAGE AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, SUMMERSIDE ROAD
Statutory Address 2:: THE OLD CHAPEL, SUMMERSIDE ROAD

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: SOMERSET COTTAGE AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, SUMMERSIDE ROAD
Statutory Address:: THE OLD CHAPEL, SUMMERSIDE ROAD

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

County:: Oxfordshire
District:: Vale of White Horse (District Authority)
Parish:: Buckland
National Grid Reference:: SU 34390 97749

Details

BUCKLAND SUMMERSIDE ROAD SU3497 (North side) 8/79 Somerset Cottage and attached railings, and the Old Chapel

GV II

House. Mid C16; left section converted into Baptist Chapel c.1784. Coursed limestone rubble, right gable wall rendered; stone slate roof; C20 brick stacks and stone stack to left. 3-unit through passage plan. Chapel in late C18 Gothick style. 2 storeys; 4-window range. Chapel has central gabled porch with pointed arch and impost blocks to C20 door and moulded kneelers to coping, flanked by 2 two-light leaded windows with Y-tracery and set in semi-circular arches of brick to left and stone to right. To centre of elevation is a timber lintel over a plank door with mid C16 moulded wood architrave and four-centred arch. Summerside has a central mid C20 gabled porch flanked by timber lintels over C18 three-light leaded casements; two late C19 gabled roof dormers. Gabled roof; remodelled ridge and right gable end stacks; C16 external gable end stack to left. C18 three-light leaded casement to right gable wall. Early C19 gabled single-storey extension to rear of Somerset Cottage; C18 gabled 2-storey extension to rear left of Old Chapel Cottage. Interior: Somerset Cottage remodelled in early C19 with panelled shutters, 6-panelled doors and fireplaces; 4-bay collar truss roof and straight flight stairs with winders. C17 panelled door in attic and ground floor retains open fireplace with chamfered bressumer to left and chamfered and stopped beams to the right. Interior of The Old Chapel not inspected but likely to be of interest. Late C18 wrought-iron railings on low rubble wall to front of Somerset Cottage.

Listing NGR: SU3439097749

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Legacy System number:: 250908
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.