Wilcote House and Attached Walls, Gateway and Outbuildings
WILCOTE HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALLS, GATEWAY AND OUTBUILDINGS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1199121
- Date first listed:
- 12-Sept-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Wilcote House and Attached Walls, Gateway and Outbuildings
- Statutory Address:
- WILCOTE HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALLS, GATEWAY AND OUTBUILDINGS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1199121
- Date first listed:
- 12-Sept-1955
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 29-Jun-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Wilcote House and Attached Walls, Gateway and Outbuildings
- Statutory Address 1:
- WILCOTE HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALLS, GATEWAY AND OUTBUILDINGS
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:
- WILCOTE HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALLS, GATEWAY AND OUTBUILDINGS
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 37483 15670
Details
NORTH LEIGH WILCOTE SP31NE 5/185 Wilcote House and attached 12/09/55 Walls, gateway and outbuildings (Formerly listed as Wilcote House) GV II Country house. Early C17, enlarged c.1700: mainly built in 1860s for Charles Sartoris and again in later C19. Coursed limestone rubble, with ashlar quoins and dressings; stone-coped stone slate roofs with ball finials; stone stacks finished in diagonally-set ashlar flues. Complex plan, with early part of house to rear left. Jacobean style. Mid C19 two-storey, 6-window range front. Gabled 2-storey porch has arched doorway with stone-mullioned overlight. Gabled bay to right, and one-storey crenellated bay to left. Jacobean-style stone-mullioned and transomed windows. Round stair-turret with mock timber framing to rear. Gabled 4-window range of c.1700 to left side wall, has ball finials to coping, stone mullioned and transomed cross windows set in segmental-arched architraves, and mullioned attic windows. To rear of this is mid C17 two-storey block with 2-light leaded casement set in pedimented Dutch gable: early C17 three-storey crenellated block, remodelled in C19, to right. Enclosing yard to rear left are C17 outbuildings, remodelled in C19, connected to gatearch, stone-coped wall to left side and outbuilding with gatearch and through-entry to front. Interior not inspected but noted as having mid/late C19 features. (Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, p830; Information from VCH)
Listing NGR: SP3748315670
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 252841
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1983)
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 830
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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