Balscote House
BALSCOTE HOUSE, CHAPEL LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1184569
- Date first listed:
- 20-Sept-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Balscote House
- Statutory Address:
- BALSCOTE HOUSE, CHAPEL LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1184569
- Date first listed:
- 20-Sept-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Balscote House
- Statutory Address 1:
- BALSCOTE HOUSE, CHAPEL LANE
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:
- BALSCOTE HOUSE, CHAPEL LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- Cherwell (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Wroxton
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 39215 41765
Details
WROXTON CHAPEL LANE SP3941 (South side) Balscote 9/177 Balscote House GV II House. Mid C17 with early C19 additions. Datestone 1806 on interior. Regular coursed ironstone rubble. Steeply pitched slate roof. 2 renewed stone ridge stacks. Stone coped gables with moulded kneelers. 2-unit plan added to at later dates. Garden front. Left part, lower and probably dates from early C19. Single storey plus attic. French door and C20 wood casements with wood lintels. Rear has early C19 metal casements with wood lintels. Main part. 2 storeys plus attic. 4-window range. Entrance off-centre to right has renewed door and renewed stone hood mould with label stops. Ground floor has three 3-light C20 casements and a small C20 window to left of door. Stone lintels. First floor has four 3-light C20 casements. 4 hipped roof dormers. Right end has 3- and 4-light stone mullioned windows with hood moulds and label stops. Rear has rectangular staircase projection and rear entrance. C20 flat-roofed extension. First floor has 3-light casements with crown glass, lead cames and bars. Wood lintels. Interior. Wooden spiral staircase, stop-chamfered beams, inglenooks with chamfered beams, butt-purlin roof with collar beam, plank doors with wrought-iron fasteners, stone flag floors. (VCH: Oxfordshire, Vol IX, p175)
Listing NGR: SP3921541765
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 244734
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1969), 175
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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