Temple Farmhouse
TEMPLE FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1182401
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jul-1963
- List Entry Name:
- Temple Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- TEMPLE FARMHOUSE
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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/06450/16
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1182401
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jul-1963
- List Entry Name:
- Temple Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- TEMPLE FARMHOUSE
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:
- TEMPLE FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- South Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Sandford-on-Thames
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 53184 01877
Details
SP 5301 SANDFORD-ON-THAMES 10/110 Temple Farmhouse. 18/07/63 GV II
Farmhouse, now country club. C16, possibly earlier and C18 reconstructed c.1900. Limestone rubble with ashlar dressings; old plain-tile roof. 2- parallel ranges with linking wing. 2 storeys plus attics. Moulded eaves-coves, gable parapets, stone stacks and much else in the main range dates from the re-building, but the entrance front has 2 earlier windows at first floor: to left a C16 stone-mullioned window with 3 concave-chamfered 4-centre arched lights, and above the entrance a 2-light window with 2-centre arched lights, concave chamfered but with no outer rebate. Re-set shield carved with cross pattee over entrance. Gable of projecting wing to right has a C16 3-light window with 4-centre arched lights and double concave chamfer. Below is a C20 copy. Extending right from projecting wing is an C18 2-storey 2-window cottage range with central door and 3-light casements. Left gable wall of main range is probably early C17 and has concave-chamfered mullioned windows with straight hood-moulds. Rear has two C15 windows of 2 and 3 (remains) lights with concave- chamfered 4-centre arched lights and an outer casement moulding, also a crude arched single light. Interior: Main range has some C17 panelling and a C16 moulded stone fireplace with Tudor roses carved in the spandrels. Roof has 3 heavy cambered tie-beams, morticed on the soffit for braces. The building is on the site of a preceptory of the Knights Templars, later transfered to the Knights Hospitallers of St. John. (V.C.H. Oxfordshire V, p.268; Buildings of England Oxfordshire, p.750).
Listing NGR: SP5318401877
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 246510
- 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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