Priory Cottage
PRIORY COTTAGE, 22, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1183279
- Date first listed:
- 06-Dec-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Priory Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- PRIORY COTTAGE, 22, CHURCH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1183279
- Date first listed:
- 06-Dec-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Priory Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- PRIORY COTTAGE, 22, CHURCH STREET
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:
- PRIORY COTTAGE, 22, CHURCH STREET
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:
- Wantage
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 39678 87868
Details
WANTAGE CHURCH STREET SU3987NE (South side) 9/71 No. 22 (Priory Cottage)
GV II
House. c.1560-80 right of door, c.1790-1800 to left. Originally timber-framed to right. Roughcast; old tile roof; brick stacks. Double-depth plan. 2 storeys; 4-window range. Carved brackets to flat hood over late C19 six-panelled (4 glazed) door set in eared moulded architrave. Late C18 sashes to left, late C19 three-light casements to right. Gabled roof; left gable end and ridge stacks. C16 two-storey, one-bay range to rear right, roughcast over timber frame and with gabled old tile roof; late C18 sashes and 6-panelled door to rear. 2-storey, 2-window range of c.1790-1800 runs parallel to rear left, of Flemish bond brick with limestone ashlar quoins, gabled old tile roof and gable end stacks; late C18 sashes and tripartite sash adjoining Doric columns to flat cornice over French windows. Interior: Late C18 two- and 4-panelled doors. Reset late C16 panelling to dado of rear left room. First floor has mid/late C16 doorway, cavetto-moulded with sunk spandrels, to rear of ridge stack, late C16 panelling adjoining winder stairs to rear of ridge stack, and mid/late C16 panelled room to right with original door to closet in front of stack. Exposed timber-framing with large arch-braces. Original roof structure not visible.
Listing NGR: SU3968187862
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 251166
- 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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