Fifield House
FIFIELD HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1198985
- Date first listed:
- 15-May-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Fifield House
- Statutory Address:
- FIFIELD HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1198985
- Date first listed:
- 15-May-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Fifield House
- Statutory Address 1:
- FIFIELD 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:
- FIFIELD HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- West Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Fifield
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 24147 18765
Details
FIFIELD SP2418-2518 19/95 Fifield House
GV II*
Farmhouse. Late C17 or possibly early C18 with later additions and alterations. Regularly coursed and dressed limestone with ashlar dressings and quoin strips; hipped stone slate roof with modillion eaves cornice. 2 storeys and attic with moulded floor band and moulded plinth to semi-basement. 5-window front; 18-paned glazing bar sashes in moulded surrounds. Central entrance; half-glazed double doors with decorated rectangular overlight approached by semi-circular flight of steps with ball finials at each end of ramped coping and small pilastered piers flanking door. Semi-basement has 2-light chamfered mullion windows directly below ground-floor sashes, inner right replaced by C20 window, with narrow rectangular chamfered windows to each side of steps. Left return has blind windows in moulded surrounds to each floor, 2-light mullion window to semi-basement and flat-roofed dormer in bottom of roof slope. Right return same except that windows have glazing bar sashes painted in imitation and it has a C20 French casement to semi-basement. Stepped external lateral stack to rear on right and similar integral stack to left with hip-roofed staircase projection between. This has 2-light chamfered mullion windows to semi-basement and to second floor with fixed-light window in earlier surround on level between. Lower fiat-roofed range attached to one side. Gabled dormers in roof slope of main range. Gabled service ranges attached at right-angles to rear on left with C20 range running at right-angles to left towards farmyard. Interior. C17/early C18 dog-leg staircase at back of central hall in hip-roofed projection rises from semi-basement and continues to attic: turned balusters to open string, moulded handrail and square newels. Left ground-floor room has plaster cornice with egg and dart moulding. Bolection moulded fireplace to room above. Wide floor boards to ground floor, first floor and attic and 2-panel doors with H-hinges throughout. (Buildings of England: Oxfordshire: p603) [2539]
Listing NGR: SP2414718765
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 253982
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 603
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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