52, THE SQUARE
52, THE SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1193430
- Date first listed:
- 27-Aug-1956
- List Entry Name:
- 52, THE SQUARE
- Statutory Address:
- 52, THE SQUARE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1193430
- Date first listed:
- 27-Aug-1956
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 18-May-1987
- List Entry Name:
- 52, THE SQUARE
- Statutory Address 1:
- 52, THE SQUARE
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:
- 52, THE SQUARE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- West Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Great Tew
- National Grid Reference:
- SP3980729313
Details
GREAT TEW THE SQUARE
SP3929 (East side)
10/87 No.52
27/08/56 (Formerly listed as Cottage
No.51 and 52)
GV II
House. Late C17. Coursed squared marlstone; Stonesfield-slate roof with
limestone-ashlar stacks. L-plan. 2 storeys plus attic; 2-window front has
3-light stone-mullioned windows at each floor with labels and lattice glazing.
To extreme left is a small chamfered opening with label in line with the stack.
Right gable wall has mullioned windows at ground floor and in gable and it
returns to a short hipped-roofed rear wing with further mullioned windows. 2
entrances at rear. Stacks to left gable and ridge of rear wing are C19 and have
plinths and moulded caps. Interior not inspected but noted as containing an
inscription in the attic "John Hiorn that is my name and with my hands I made
this same. This house builded by John Stow and Joan his wife and here they lived
all their life. Builded in the year of our Lord God 1680 RSIHTEA".
(V.C.H.: Oxfordshire, Vol. XI, p.225).
Listing NGR: SP3980729313
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 251899
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1983), 225
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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