Home Farmhouse
HOME FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1199119
- Date first listed:
- 12-Sept-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Home Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- HOME FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1199119
- Date first listed:
- 12-Sept-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Home Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- HOME 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:
- HOME FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- West Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Kelmscott
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 24678 99335
Details
KELMSCOTT SU2499-2599 10/62 Home Farmhouse 12.9.55 - II
Farmhouse. Mid-C18 remodelling of C17 or earlier building; later additions and alterations. Roughly coursed limestone rubble with ashlar dressings, formerly roughcast to front; stone slate roofs with coped verges and parapet to main range. L-plan comprising C18 front with long gabled range at right-angles to rear on right; late C19/early C20 additions in angle between. 2 storeys with plinth, floor band and moulded eaves cornice. 1:1:1 bays, centre slightly projecting with open pediment to parapet; glazing bar sashes in stone surrounds, 16-paned to centre on first floor, tripartite to outer bays and Venetian to ground floor. Blind lunette to open pediment with defaced Sun Fire Insurance plate. Central entrance; mid-C20 gabled rubblestone porch over recessed 6-panel door (upper 4 panels now glazed) with wreathed and radiating fanlight. Integral ashlar end stacks have moulded dripstones and capping. Range at right-angles to rear has 3-light chamfered mullion window directly below eaves to far left and 2-light mullion windows to 2 gabled false dormers to right. Ground floor has narrow C19 casement to far left and 4-light segmental-headed casement to left of centre. Three-light mullion-window to right with C20 lean-to (not of special architectural interest) to right. Prominent ashlar ridge stack with dripstone and capping to centre and corbelled external end stack to right, apparently cutting possibly reset mullioned window. Further 2- and 3-light mullion windows to garden side. Interior. Staircase in stone-flagged central entrance hall has stick balusters, carved open string and wreathed handrail. Chamfered ceiling beams in ground-floor rooms. Panelled doors. Late C19/early C20 addition in angle to rear is not of special architectural interest. (Buildings of England: Oxfordshire: p667) [2357]
Listing NGR: SU2467899335
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 253814
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 667
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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