Stables and Attached Walls Attached to and South East of Rousham House
STABLES AND ATTACHED WALLS ATTACHED TO AND SOUTH EAST OF ROUSHAM HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1199244
- Date first listed:
- 27-Aug-1957
- List Entry Name:
- Stables and Attached Walls Attached to and South East of Rousham House
- Statutory Address:
- STABLES AND ATTACHED WALLS ATTACHED TO AND SOUTH EAST OF ROUSHAM HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1199244
- Date first listed:
- 27-Aug-1957
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 29-Jun-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Stables and Attached Walls Attached to and South East of Rousham House
- Statutory Address 1:
- STABLES AND ATTACHED WALLS ATTACHED TO AND SOUTH EAST OF ROUSHAM 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:
- STABLES AND ATTACHED WALLS ATTACHED TO AND SOUTH EAST OF ROUSHAM HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- West Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Rousham
- National Grid Reference:
- SP4787724183
Details
ROUSHAM ROUSHAM PARK SP4724 14/206 Stables and attached walls 27/08/57 attached to and SE of Rousham House (Formerly listed under Rousham House, together with Dovecote and Stables) GV II* Stables. c.1738, probably by William Kent. Coursed limestone rubble with ashlar quoins and dressings; gabled Welsh slate roof; moulded ashlar ridge stacks. 2 storeys; symmetrical 12-window range. Pedimented centre has semi-circular arches to tall central carriageway and flanking doorways with C19 beaded double-leaf doors; 3-pane sashes flank apron above. Gibbs surrounds and overlights with thick glazing bars to stable doors. Stone lintels over 6-pane sashes with thick glazing bars to left of centre and mid/late C19 six-pane sashes to right; 3-pane sashes with thick glazing bars on first floor. To rear is similar elevation with C18 two-light leaded casements on first floor and jib-crane to loft door. Ogee-domed cupola. Interior: 3-bay quadripartite vaulting to carriageway. Fine stalls with ball finials to stabling and looseboxes; panelled doors. Partial inspection only. Subsidiary features: limestone rubble walls with moulded coping enclose yard to left and is joined to Rousham House (q.v.). (Rousham Park is included in the H.B.M.C. Register of Parks and Gardens at Grade I; Buildings of England: Oxfordshire: p748)
Listing NGR: SP4787524178
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 252862
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 748
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 34 Oxfordshire
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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