Ramsden House
RAMSDEN HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1198683
- Date first listed:
- 13-Jun-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Ramsden House
- Statutory Address:
- RAMSDEN HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1198683
- Date first listed:
- 13-Jun-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Ramsden House
- Statutory Address 1:
- RAMSDEN HOUSE
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:
- RAMSDEN HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- West Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Ramsden
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 35603 15102
Details
RAMSDEN SP3515 18/113 Ramsden House
GV II
Parsonage, now house: 1862, by William Wilkinson. Squared and coursed limestone with ashlar dressings; slate roofs. Irregular plan with service wing projecting to north-west. In a Gothic Revival style. Two storeys and attic with service wing of one storey and attic. Chamfered plinth; parapeted gables with shaped kneelers and finials at apices. Various stone stacks with offsets and chamfered caps. Mainly chamfered shallow-arched glazing bar sashes with bar stops and stone arches. North-west (entrance) front: projecting wing to left with quatrefoil in apex of gable, single sash to attic and first floor, and paired ground-floor sashes with relieving arch. Narrow first-floor sash in right-hand return. Right-hand range with first-floor sash to left and staircase sash to right at mezzanine level with margin lights. Partly-enclosed stone porch in angle to left; one x 3 bays with chamfered square columns supporting entablature with blocking course, hipped roof, pair of doors each with 2 raised and fielded panels, and diamond-leaded side windows. Right-hand return front: gabled range set-back to left with quatrefoil in apex, paired first-floor sashes lighting staircase with margin lights and relieving arch, and half-glazed door to right with continuous lean-to porch. Projecting right-hand gable with small Gothic attic window and 2-storey square bay with chamfered string course, hipped roof, single first-floor sash and triple ground-floor sashes. Stack in valley to centre. South-east (garden) front: left-hand range with pair of first-floor square-headed sashes and ground-floor hipped-roofed square bay with cross window. Projecting centre gabled wing with quatrefoil in apex, attic sash and 2-storey square bay with chamfered string courses, coped parapet, 2 first-floor sashes and ground-floor sashes flanking central glazed door. External stone lateral stack to left, corbelled from first floor. Range of one storey and attic set back to right with gabled semi-dormer and ground floor bay with canted right-hand corner, string course and coped parapet, 3 square-headed sashes to left and 2 Gothic sashes to right; 4-panelled door to return with moulded flat hood on shaped stone brackets. Service wing to north-east. Ridge stack and end stack. South-west front with pair of gabled semi-dormers, 2 ground-floor sashes to right and 3-light wooden casement to left. Interior not inspected but noted as having 3-light staircase, with landings, closed string, turned balusters and square newel posts. (Buildings of England: Oxfordshire: p734)
Listing NGR: SP3559715108
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 252528
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 734
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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