Bacon's Farmhouse and Attached Stable
BACON'S FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED STABLE, WATER STRATFORD ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1192676
- Date first listed:
- 03-Oct-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Bacon's Farmhouse and Attached Stable
- Statutory Address:
- BACON'S FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED STABLE, WATER STRATFORD ROAD
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- Date:
- 2001-07-25
- Reference:
- IOE01/04192/26
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1192676
- Date first listed:
- 03-Oct-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Bacon's Farmhouse and Attached Stable
- Statutory Address 1:
- BACON'S FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED STABLE, WATER STRATFORD ROAD
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:
- BACON'S FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED STABLE, WATER STRATFORD 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 64624 34377
Details
FINMERE WATER STRATFORD ROAD SP63SW (West side) 5/17 Bacon's Farmhouse and attached stable
- II
Farmhouse. C17 with C18 front range. Squared coursed limestone. Steeply pitched red-tile roofs. Brick end stacks. C18 range. 2 storeys. 4-window range. Central entrance has front with hipped red-tile roof. Panelled/glazed door and moulded wood frame. Ground floor has sashes with keyblock lintels and glazing bars. 4 similar first floor windows. Stone band to first floor. Earlier range to rear has 2 gabled dormers. Stable attached to right. Squared coursed limestone. Steeply pitched slate roof. Single storey plus loft. 2 stable entrances with plank doors and wood lintels. Gabled loft entrance with plank door and wood lintel. Hipped roof on right. The former Manor House or Court House taking its name from C18 owners. In the first half of the C18 the Duke of Buckingham, Lord of the Manor, pulled damn most of the old house and built the present farm buildings. Purchased by Merton College Oxford in 1853 and 1858. Interior not inspected. (VCH: Oxfordshire: 1974, p117)
Listing NGR: SP6462434377
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 243609
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
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.
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