Barton Abbey
BARTON ABBEY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1199521
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jun-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Barton Abbey
- Statutory Address:
- BARTON ABBEY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1199521
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jun-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Barton Abbey
- Statutory Address 1:
- BARTON ABBEY
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:
- BARTON ABBEY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- West Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Steeple Barton
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 45303 24963
Details
STEEPLE BARTON SP42SE 4/261 Barton Abbey GV II* House. Built c.1570 for John Dormer; altered in late C17; rebuilt 1849-62 by S.S. Teulon for Henry Hall; further alterations of c.1890. Squared and coursed ironstone; gabled stone slate roof with moulded stone coping; moulded ashlar stacks. Linear plan with service wing to left. Tudor Picturesque style. 2 storeys and attic; 10-window range to asymmetrical gabled front. 2-storey porch has corner buttresses, Perpendicular-style doorway, studded doorway and oriel window above with hollow-moulded stone-mullioned and arch-headed lights. Hood moulds over similar and 3-light mullioned windows, some transomed. 3-bay crenellated loggia of c.1890 to right. One-storey service range extends from front to join stables (q.v.). Right-end gable has gabled dormer set on canted bay, and canted bay with French-style pyramidal roof to rear. Centre of rear elevation has 2 gables and polygonal stair-turret of late C16 house: hood moulds over similar mullioned windows of up to 4 lights, and chamfered light and hood mould over 4-centred arched doorway to stair-turret. Mid/late C19 block with pyramidal roof to rear left. Interior: mid C19 panelling and Jacobean-style carved overmantels in main 3 ground floor rooms and elaborate dog-leg stairs in central stair hall. Late C16 stair-turret to rear has closed well staircase has stop-chamfered doorways, C17 panelled door to attic and 4-centred moulded wood doorway with carved spandrels. House named Barton Abbey from erroneous belief that it stood on site of former cell of Osney Abbey. (Buildings of England: Oxfordshire: p788; VCH: Oxfordshire: Vol XI, p64; Bodleian Library, MS. Top. Oxon. C.522 (top) F.5v. for 1868 drawing)
Listing NGR: SP4530324963
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 252916
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1983), 64
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 788
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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