FINMERE HOUSE THE TUDOR HOUSE

FINMERE HOUSE, MERE ROAD

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1192652
Date first listed:: 26-Nov-1951
List Entry Name:: FINMERE HOUSE THE TUDOR HOUSE
Statutory Address:: FINMERE HOUSE, MERE ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1192652
Date first listed:: 26-Nov-1951
Date of most recent amendment:: 03-Oct-1988
List Entry Name:: FINMERE HOUSE THE TUDOR HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: FINMERE HOUSE, MERE ROAD
Statutory Address 2:: THE TUDOR HOUSE, MERE ROAD

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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:: FINMERE HOUSE, MERE ROAD
Statutory Address:: THE TUDOR HOUSE, MERE ROAD

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

County:: Oxfordshire
District:: Cherwell (District Authority)
Parish:: Finmere
National Grid Reference:: SP 63606 32835

Details

FINMERE MERE ROAD SP6232-6332 (South side) 12/11 Finmere House and The Tudor 26/11/51 House (Formerly listed as Finmere House)

- II

House, now 2 dwellings. C17 refronted 1739, the date on rainwater heads. C19 and C20 additions to left and rear. Red brick; squared coursed limestone to sides and rear. Steeply pitched red-tile roofs with stone coped gables. Brick end stacks. 2 buildings. Main part on right. 2 storeys plus attic. 7-window range. 2:3:2 bays. Central entrance had 5-panelled door and pedimented stone surround. Entrance is flanked by sashes with glazing bars and keyblock lintels. Slightly advanced 3 bay centre has central window with semi-circular head. Pediment has a round window. 2 gabled dormers. Brick parapet with stone coping. Squared, coursed limestone plinth. Left part. Single stormy plus attic. Entrance to left has 6-panelled door and pedimented stone surround. 5 sash windows to right within the same stone surround and a small oriel window further to right. 2 gabled dormers. Brick parapet. Rear wing (now The Tudor House). Squared coursed limestone. Steeply pitched red-tile roof. Renewed brick roof stacks. Renewed windows and door in original openings. Intterior: C17 part noted as restored. C18 painted deal panelling. John Pollard (d.1761) bought the house from the James family in 1739. The Gazing Stag on the rainwater heads of 1739 is for John Pollard, and is also on his tomb in Finmere churchyard. Interior not inspected, Buildings of England: Oxfordshire: 1974, p605; VCH: 0xfordshire: Vol VII p117; Blomfeld, J.C.: History of Finmere in History of the Present Deanery of Bicester: 1887, p16; Photograph in N.M.R.) .

Listing NGR: SP6360632835

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Legacy System number:: 243603
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Blomfield, JC, History of the Present Deanery of Bicester Oxfordshire, (1887), 16
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 605
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1959), 117

Legal

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