Stanford House and Attached Forecourt Railings

STANFORD HOUSE AND ATTACHED FORECOURT RAILINGS, UPPER GREEN

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1183150
Date first listed:
10-Nov-1952
List Entry Name:
Stanford House and Attached Forecourt Railings
Statutory Address:
STANFORD HOUSE AND ATTACHED FORECOURT RAILINGS, UPPER GREEN
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1183150
Date first listed:
10-Nov-1952
List Entry Name:
Stanford House and Attached Forecourt Railings
Statutory Address 1:
STANFORD HOUSE AND ATTACHED FORECOURT RAILINGS, UPPER GREEN

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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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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
STANFORD HOUSE AND ATTACHED FORECOURT RAILINGS, UPPER GREEN

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:
Stanford in the Vale
National Grid Reference:
SU 34219 93856

Details

STANFORD-IN-THE-VALE UPPER GREEN SU 3493 (east side) 9/255 Stanford House and attached 10.11.52 forecourt railings

GV II

House. c.1760. Flemish bond brick with flared headers, limestone ashlar dressings, stone slate roof; brick stacks. 2-unit central staircase plan, 3 storeys; 3 bay, centre pedimented and brought forward. Pedimented Tuscan porch; 3-panelled double- leaf doors with fanlight set in moulded semi-circular arch with moulded impost. Square bay windows, with chamfered stone-mullioned windows, were added by George Fowles in 1870; other windows have flat gauged brick arches over sashes. Fire insurance plaque in centre of elevation; flat stone band beneath parapet; tympanum of central projecting pediment has blind gauged brick lunette. Hipped roof; end stacks. 2-bay side walls have blind windows to right and 3 sashes and basement win- dows to left; parapet is returned to side walls and ramped up to the end stacks which are flush with the wall face. Some sashes to rear right as to front; rear door, directly opposite front door, is 6-panelled with fanlight set in semi-circular gauged brick arch. Interior: 6-panelled doors and shutters. Minton tile floor of c.1870 in hall, which has straight-flight stairs and column-on-vase balusters on closed string. Room to left has moulded cornice, room to right has panelled dado and Ionic modil- lioned cornice. First and attic floors not inspected but likely to be of interest. Subsidiary features: Contemporary kitchen wing to rear left of coursed limestone rubble to left and Flemish bond brick with flared headers to right and rear; Welsh slate roof; brick stacks. One storey and attic; 3-window range. To left side are stone lintels over one 6-panelled door and one blocked door, and three sashes; 4 pedi- mented dormers have moulded cornices and 2-light leaded casements. To right side are gauged brick arches over two early C18 sashes with original thick glazing bars, one mid C19 sash and one 2-light casement; 2 pedimented dormers on left side. Mansard roof; large ridge stack and gable end stack. Interior: Straight flight stairs with winders and columns-on-vase balusters on closed string; fireplace in centre has sur- round of c.1870. Attached to rear of kitchen wing is mid C18 brewhouse and washhouse in similar materials and retaining original coppers etc. Forecourt walls and railings attached to front of Stanford House have mid C18 walls in Flemish bond brick with flared headers; railings and gate of c.1870 to front interrupted by square piers with moulded cornices. (Buildings of England: Berkshire, p 227.)

Listing NGR: SU3421993856

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
251085
Legacy System:
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Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Berkshire, (1975), 227

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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