Church Farm House
CHURCH FARM HOUSE, CHURCH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1199108
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jun-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Church Farm House
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH FARM HOUSE, CHURCH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1199108
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jun-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Church Farm House
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH FARM HOUSE, CHURCH ROAD
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:
- CHURCH FARM HOUSE, CHURCH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- West Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- North Leigh
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 38588 13399
Details
NORTH LEIGH
1700/21/172 CHURCH ROAD 29-JUN-88 (West side) CHURCH FARM HOUSE
II House, formerly farmhouse, probably early C18.
MATERIALS: Squared coursed limestone rubble with stone slate roof.
PLAN: Symmetrically-planned main block of two-storeys plus attic and cellar, with ground-floor entrance lobby giving access to parlour, kitchen and projecting rear stair turret; smaller service wing adjoining kitchen to north.
EXTERIOR: Two-storey main block has symmetrical front of four bays. Flat stone arches over tall rectangular windows, originally with timber mullions and transoms (surviving on ground floor) and wrought-iron opening casements. Central doorway has moulded timber lintel above six-panel front door with glazed upper lights. Gabled roof with two attic dormers and end stacks replaced in yellow brick. Rear elevation has central projecting stair turret with hipped roof; lean-to extension with pantiled roof to left. Single-storey service wing to north, thought to be contemporary with main block, with attic dormer and end stack; mid-C20 conservatory to rear.
INTERIOR: Surviving features include C18 plank and panelled doors, fireplace in right-hand room on ground floor with rack (probably spit rack) above, further fireplace in left-hand room on first floor, and timber newel staircase in rear turret.
HISTORY: Church Farm House may have been built by the Perrott family, who held the manor of North Leigh in the early C18. Between 1765 and 1886 the house and farm were owned by the Duke of Marlborough and let to various tenants. Apart from a small rear extension built before 1876 and a conservatory added in the 1950s, the building has been little altered.
SOURCES: Victoria County History of Oxfordshire, vol.12 (1990), pp.213-9. RB Wood-Jones, Traditional Domestic Architecture of the Banbury Region (1963).
REASONS FOR DESIGNATION: Church Farm House is listed for the following principal reason: * Architectural interest: a little-altered example of a formally-planned farmhouse of the early C18.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 252828
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1990), 213-9
Wood-Jones, R B, Traditional Domestic Architecture in the Banbury Region, (1963)
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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