Waterstock House, Stable Court

WATERSTOCK HOUSE, STABLE COURT

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1183221
Date first listed:
18-Jul-1963
List Entry Name:
Waterstock House, Stable Court
Statutory Address:
WATERSTOCK HOUSE, STABLE COURT

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1183221
Date first listed:
18-Jul-1963
Date of most recent amendment:
05-Jun-1985
List Entry Name:
Waterstock House, Stable Court
Statutory Address 1:
WATERSTOCK HOUSE, STABLE COURT

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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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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
WATERSTOCK HOUSE, STABLE COURT

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

County:
Oxfordshire
District:
South Oxfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:
Waterstock
National Grid Reference:
SP 63651 05674

Details

WATERSTOCK SP60NW 6/224 Waterstock House, stable court 18/07/63 (Formerly listed as Stable block NE of Waterstock House)

GV II

Stable court. Late C18; barn early C18. Coursed squared limestone rubble with ashlar dressings; timber framing in barn; old plain-tile roofs. Courtyard plan. Rear and left ranges: one storey plus loft; front ranges; single storey. Rear range has 3 stable doors, with rectangular overlights, separated by pairs of 16-pane sashes, all with stone flat arches. Mounting block to left of centre. Left range is irregular with a central segmental-arched carriage entrance. Right range incorporates a partly-weatherboarded 3-bay barn; wall facing court is stone but wall and porch at rear and one end wall are timber-framed and partly infilled with brick. Single-storey, hip-roofed front ranges flank ashlar gate piers, the left range having a timber-framed section in its outer wall. Interior: Barn has a clasped-purlin roof with short curved under-principals. Probably contemporary with the house built 1787-91 by S.P. Cockerell for Sir Henry Ashhurst, and mostly demolished 1953. (V.C.H.: Oxfordshire, Vol.Vl1, p.220).

Listing NGR: SP6365105674

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
246745
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1962), 220

Legal

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

Ordnance survey map of Waterstock House, Stable Court

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