Showell Farmhouse
SHOWELL FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1193484
- Date first listed:
- 18-May-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Showell Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- SHOWELL FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1193484
- Date first listed:
- 18-May-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Showell Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- SHOWELL FARMHOUSE
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:
- SHOWELL FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- West Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Little Tew
- National Grid Reference:
- SP3588429105
Details
LITTLE TEW
SP32NE
5/102 Showell Farmhouse
- II
Farmhouse. Early/mid C18, possibly partly earlier. Coursed limestone rubble and
ashlar with wooden lintels; concrete plain-tile roof with ashlar stacks. 3-unit
plan extended to 4 units. 2 storeys plus attic. Irregular 5-window front has a
doorway, to left of centre, with a 4-panel door within a C19 ashlar porch with a
semi-circular keystoned archway; above it is a tripartite sash. To left are
casements of 2 and 3 lights and, to right, 2 bays with regularly-spaced C20
casements. The bay to extreme right is in ashlar and is slightly later. Gables
have parapets and stacks, and 2 further ridge stacks flank the entrance bay.
Rear has 2 small projections, raised late C20 to 2 storeys. Interior: some ogee
chamfer stops to some beams and some gabled roof dormers. Attic beam said to be
inscribed 1724. Showell was the site of a deserted village.
Listing NGR: SP3588429105
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 251912
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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