Studley Almshouses
STUDLEY ALMSHOUSES
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1193018
- Date first listed:
- 26-Nov-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Studley Almshouses
- Statutory Address:
- STUDLEY ALMSHOUSES
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1193018
- Date first listed:
- 26-Nov-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Studley Almshouses
- Statutory Address 1:
- STUDLEY ALMSHOUSES
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:
- STUDLEY ALMSHOUSES
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- Cherwell (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Horton-cum-Studley
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 59777 12367
Details
HORTON CUM STUDLEY STUDLEY SP5912 14/64 Studley Almshouses 26/11/51 GV II* Shown on Ordnance Survey Sheet as Studley Cottages. Row of 4 almshouses, probably formerly 8. Built 1639 for Sir George Croke. Brick in English bond with limestone-ashlar dressings; old plain-tile roof with brick ridge stacks. Single range of 2-unit lobby-entry plans, probably each originally 2 dwellings. Single storey. Symmetrical front, with moulded brick plinth and dentil eaves course, has 4 stone doorways with chamfered 4-centred arches, recessed spandrels and labels, each between a pair of 3-light concave-chamfered stone-mullioned windows with labels. The old plank doors and hinges are probably original. The 4 moulded brick stacks each have 2 diagonal shafts with corbelled caps, one stack with the remains of a stone sundial. A stone tablet on the front wall has a Latin inscription which includes the date. Rear wall formerly had only one small slit window to each unit; present casements and doors are C20 insertions. Interior: blocked fireplaces with cambered stop-chamfered bressumers; some old plank doors. (V.C.H.: Oxfordshire, Vol.V, p.58; Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, p.656).
Listing NGR: SP5977712367
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 243301
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1957), 58
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 656
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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