Model Farm, Engine House and Attached Buildings Approximately 15 Metres South South West of Farmhouse
MODEL FARM, ENGINE HOUSE AND ATTACHED BUILDINGS APPROXIMATELY 15 METRES SOUTH SOUTH WEST OF FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1182651
- Date first listed:
- 03-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Model Farm, Engine House and Attached Buildings Approximately 15 Metres South South West of Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- MODEL FARM, ENGINE HOUSE AND ATTACHED BUILDINGS APPROXIMATELY 15 METRES SOUTH SOUTH WEST OF FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1182651
- Date first listed:
- 03-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Model Farm, Engine House and Attached Buildings Approximately 15 Metres South South West of Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- MODEL FARM, ENGINE HOUSE AND ATTACHED BUILDINGS APPROXIMATELY 15 METRES SOUTH SOUTH WEST OF FARMHOUSE
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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:
- MODEL FARM, ENGINE HOUSE AND ATTACHED BUILDINGS APPROXIMATELY 15 METRES SOUTH SOUTH WEST OF FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- South Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Shirburn
- National Grid Reference:
- SU6953497123
Details
SU69NE
4/144
SHIRBURN
Model Farm, engine house and attached buildings approx.15m. SSW of farmhouse
GV
II
Engine house. Date 1856 on spandrels of covered way, by William Wilkinson for
the Earl of Macclesfield. Flemish bond brick with flared headers and diapering;
double-gabled Welsh slate roof; central ridge stack finished in Engineering
brick. Plan has covered way left of centre with sawing shed and carpenters'
workshop to left and engine room, boiler house, thrashing and chaff-cutting
rooms to right. 2 storeys; 4-window first floor range. Covered way has cast-iron
spandrels under wall plate. Gauged-brick chamfered segmental-arch over
double-entry to left: similar flat-arch over partly blocked entry to right.
Similar segmental-arches over first floor casements. Interior: base and some
driving-wheels and belts survive of steam-driven sawmill to left. Remains of
chaff-cutting and threshing machinery to right include mid C19 twelve
horse-power steam engine by Ruston (name plate). Subsidiary features; buildings
attached to right and making T-plan consist of woolstore/granary over cartsheds
at ends flanking central sheaf room and processing/storage block. Main front (to
right): long 2-storey central block has 3 central gabled bays with chamfered
segmental-arched 2-light casements above central/mid C19 sliding door: similar
sliding doors in long outer bays. Flanking 5 and 4-bay cartsheds have chamfered
archways and chamfered segmental-arches over horizontal sliding sashes; right
gable end has external steps with bell over doorway to granary. There was a
rickyard to the rear of the engine house. Wilkinson designed similar farm
buildings at Longleat, Wiltshire and Kirtlington, north of Oxford. The buildings
at Home Farm were
highly praised, in particular "the several purposes for which steam-power is
made available - viz. for thrashing the corn of the farm, cutting the chaff for
the horses and cattle, crushing oats and beans, grinding corn, drawing water
from a deep well to supply a cistern from which the water is conveyed by iron
piping throughout all parts of the homestead, and also for sawing timber....".
(Illustrated London News, December 12, 1857, pp. 584-5).
Listing NGR: SU6953497123
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 248990
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Illustrated London News in 12 December, (1857)
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 34 Oxfordshire
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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