Dormer Croft
Dormer Croft, 28, Cowley Road, Oxford, OX4 4LD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1182337
- Date first listed:
- 25-Oct-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Dormer Croft
- Statutory Address:
- Dormer Croft, 28, Cowley Road, Oxford, OX4 4LD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1182337
- Date first listed:
- 25-Oct-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Dormer Croft
- Statutory Address 1:
- Dormer Croft, 28, Cowley Road, Oxford, OX4 4LD
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:
- Dormer Croft, 28, Cowley Road, Oxford, OX4 4LD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- Oxford (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Littlemore
- National Grid Reference:
- SP5392503054
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 27/04/2018
SP 50 SW
1/100
LITTLEMORE
COWLEY ROAD (East side)
No 28 (Dormer Croft)
(Formerly listed as Nos.26 and 28 (Dormer Croft))
II
House. Early C17, possibly earlier. Coursed squared limestone rubble and brickwork of irregular bond; old plain-tile roof and brick stacks. Two-unit through-passage plan with cross-wing. Main range of one storey plus attics with brick-cased two-window front. C20 door between two-light casements with two two-light dormers. Steep roof with stacks to left gable and to right of passage, just below ridge. Left gable wall has N/B/S/1657 on quoin. Two-window return front of two-storey stone cross-wing to right has been altered and has C20 casements. Front gable has a stone stack.
Interior: Main range has two open fireplaces with cambered chamfered bressumers, one flanked by a fixed wooden settle, and chamfered and stopped beams and joists. Joists span onto perimeter beams. Roof trusses support single row of trenched purlins with heavy wind-braces. Cross-wing has first-floor fireplace with timber Tudor arch, and above a plaster panel with a moulded arched border surrounding a portrait head and floral design flanked by the date 1630. Intersecting chamfered and stopped beams at ground floor.
Cottage attached to front gable of cross-wing is excluded.
Listing NGR: SP5392503054
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 246497
- 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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