Gables Cottage, Cygnet Restaurant, Craft Workshops and Malthouse
CRAFT WORKSHOPS AND MALTHOUSE, NEWLAND STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1198560
- Date first listed:
- 17-Oct-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Gables Cottage, Cygnet Restaurant, Craft Workshops and Malthouse
- Statutory Address:
- CRAFT WORKSHOPS AND MALTHOUSE, NEWLAND STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1198560
- Date first listed:
- 17-Oct-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Gables Cottage, Cygnet Restaurant, Craft Workshops and Malthouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- CRAFT WORKSHOPS AND MALTHOUSE, NEWLAND STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- CRAFT WORKSHOPS AND MALTHOUSE, QUEEN STREET
- Statutory Address 3:
- CYGNET RESTAURANT, NEWLAND STREET
- Statutory Address 4:
- CYGNET RESTAURANT, QUEEN STREET
- Statutory Address 5:
- GABLES COTTAGE, 34, NEWLAND STREET
- Statutory Address 6:
- GABLES COTTAGE, 34, QUEEN STREET
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:
- CRAFT WORKSHOPS AND MALTHOUSE, NEWLAND STREET
- Statutory Address:
- CRAFT WORKSHOPS AND MALTHOUSE, QUEEN STREET
- Statutory Address:
- CYGNET RESTAURANT, NEWLAND STREET
- Statutory Address:
- CYGNET RESTAURANT, QUEEN STREET
- Statutory Address:
- GABLES COTTAGE, 34, NEWLAND STREET
- Statutory Address:
- GABLES COTTAGE, 34, QUEEN STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- West Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Eynsham
- National Grid Reference:
- SP4352209544
Details
SP4309 EYNSHAM NEWLAND STREET
14/157 (South side)
No.34 (Gables Cottage), Cygnet
Restaurant, Craft Workshops
and Malthouse
GV II
House and malthouse, now house, restaurant and craft workshops. c.1820 by James
Pimm for James Swan. Coursed limestone rubble with ashlar quoins and dressings;
low cambered roof of tar and paper, felted ever; brick ridge stack. L-plan with
rear right wing. No.34 to right of 2-storey, 5-window range. Keyed cambered
stone arch over plank dour to left, and timber lintel over C20 door right of
centre. Cambered stone arches over 2-light windows with glazing bars. Malthouse
to front left, of 2-storey, 5-window range, has similar windows to side and
gable end with plank door and blocked hoist opening. Rear has some C20 windows
and door. Interior: 6-bay malthouse has cast-iron columns supporting first
floor, which has low-pitched queen-post roof. The tar and paper roof was made at
Eynsham Mill, which was owned by the same Swan family (of The sables (q.v.)),
and was also used by J.C. Loudon at Great Tew.
(information from the V.C.H.; J.C. Loudon, "An Account of the Paper Roofs used
at Tew Lodge", Oxen; Bodleian Library).
Listing NGR: SP4352209544
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 252236
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Loudon, J C, An Account of the Paper Roofs used at Tew Lodge Oxon, (1811)
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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