Kings Head House Laneside
KINGS HEAD HOUSE, KINGS HEAD LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1193223
- Date first listed:
- 10-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Kings Head House Laneside
- Statutory Address:
- KINGS HEAD HOUSE, KINGS HEAD LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1193223
- Date first listed:
- 10-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Kings Head House Laneside
- Statutory Address 1:
- KINGS HEAD HOUSE, KINGS HEAD LANE
- Statutory Address 2:
- LANESIDE, KINGS HEAD 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:
- KINGS HEAD HOUSE, KINGS HEAD LANE
- Statutory Address:
- LANESIDE, KINGS HEAD LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- Cherwell (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Islip
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 52748 14042
Details
ISLIP KINGS HEAD LANE SP5214 (East side) 12/80 Kings Head House and Laneside House GV II Inn, now 2 houses. Possibly late C16/early C17, re-modelled c.1700 and C20. Coursed limestone rubble and some rendered timber framing; Stonesfield-slate and artificial stone-slate roofs with rebuilt brick stacks. L-plan. 2 storeys plus attic. Partly-rebuilt front has a large chamfered lintel or bressumer, to right of centre, now built into the wall but retaining moulded wood corbels at each end; rubble walling above and possibly to right may replace framing. Openings in left bay are mostly altered and have renewed leaded cross windows, but a heavy chamfered doorframe survives. Right gable wall is rebuilt. Rear has rendered framing at first floor and includes an old cross window. Rubble rear range (Kings Head House) has renewed casements plus one old cross window. Both ranges have large ridge stacks. Interior: central bay of main range, possibly originally a carriage entry, has heavy chamfered joists and a cellar; large open fireplace with chamfered cambered bressumer and chamfered stone jambs; chamber fireplace with chamfered bressumer and moulded-brick reredos; butt-purlin roof. Interior of Kings Head House not inspected. (V.C.H.: Oxfordshire, Vol.VI. p.207).
Listing NGR: SP5274814042
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 243318
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1959), 207
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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