HARCOURT HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALLS AND OUTBUILDINGS

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1199690
Date first listed:: 12-Sep-1955
List Entry Name:: HARCOURT HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALLS AND OUTBUILDINGS
Statutory Address:: HARCOURT HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALLS AND OUTBUILDINGS

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1199690
Date first listed:: 12-Sep-1955
Date of most recent amendment:: 17-Oct-1988
List Entry Name:: HARCOURT HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALLS AND OUTBUILDINGS
Statutory Address 1:: HARCOURT HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALLS AND OUTBUILDINGS

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: HARCOURT HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALLS 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:: Stanton Harcourt
National Grid Reference:: SP 41591 05673

Details

STANTON HARCOURT HARCOURT HOUSE SP4105 21/318 Harcourt House and attached 12/09/55 walls and outbuildings (Formerly listed as Harcourt House and outbuildings)

GV II*

Gatehouse and stables of former manor house. C15 and mid C16, for Harcourt family. Gatehouse in centre of front: c.1540, remodelled c.1868. Rendered over limestone rubble; gabled stone slate roof; end stacks of stone finished in C20 brick. 2 storeys; 3-window range. Label mould, with Harcourt arms to stops, over hollow-chamfered central archway:. archway infilled in 1868 with arched doorway. Mid C16 canted oriel window above, with hollow-chamfered stone mullions to lights and Harcourt arms carved on base, is flanked by hood moulds over 3-light hollow-chamfered stone-nullioned windows above similar mid C19 windows. Extension to left of gatehouse built 1953. Extension to right of 1868 incorporates C15 stables in centre: of similar materials, with ridge stacks, except stables of coursed limestone rubble; of 2-storey, 11-window range; similar C16 three-light window above C15 segmental-headed archway with head corbels to former stable, Rear: block of 1868 of similar materials and 2-storey, 2-window range with sashes and hipped roof. Interior: mid C16 moulded stone fireplace and chamfered stone fireplace in gatehouse (roof not inspected). Mid C19 staircase, fireplaces, and library to rear. Subsidiary features: C15 wall to rear left, approximately 80 metres long; of coursed limestone rubble, with crenellated parapet, between churchyard and house; hood moulds over 2 chamfered arched doorways. Mid C18 wall, approximately 5 metres long and of coursed limestone rubble with round-arched doorway, extends from rear of house to outbuilding, of weatherboarding with hipped thatch roof; attached C18 cartshed of limestone rubble with gabled stone slate roof and 8-bay collar-truss roof with butt purlins and jowled posts; C15 limestone rubble wall, crenellated with chamfered archway, extends approximately 10 metres from rear wall of cartshed. History: the Harcourt family have lived here since the mid C12. After the death of Sir Philip Harcourt in 1688 the house was left to fall into a ruinous state and was mostly pulled down in 1750, when Nuneham Courtenay was begun. Harcourt House became the family home again in 1948. A plan of 1726 shows that the stable and gatehouse range stood to the north of the main building, which were grouped around a courtyard, of which only the Great Kitchen, Pope's Tower, Manor Farmhouse and dovecote (q.v.) remain. (Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, p.782; National Monuments Record; Bodleian Library, M.S. Top, Oxon for late C18 and C18 drawings).

Listing NGR: SP4159105673

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Legacy System number:: 252402
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 782

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.