Lime Tree House
LIME TREE HOUSE, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1199929
- Date first listed:
- 24-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Lime Tree House
- Statutory Address:
- LIME TREE HOUSE, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1199929
- Date first listed:
- 24-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Lime Tree House
- Statutory Address 1:
- LIME TREE HOUSE, HIGH STREET
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:
- LIME TREE HOUSE, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- Vale of White Horse (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Harwell
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 49114 89121
Details
HARWELL HIGH STREET SU4989 (West side) 9/123 Lime Tree House 24/11/66 GV II*
House. c.1250 origins; remodelling of c1300; cross-wing to left of c.1360; C17 front, with early C19 alterations. Painted brick plinth; roughcast, probably on timber-framing; old plain-tile roof; brick end stack to right. 2-storey, 3-window range. 6-panel door to centre with wood reeded surround and open wood-trellis porch. Two 12-pane unhorned sashes with wood reeded surrounds and cornices to ground floor right. Single 12-pane unhorned sash with wood reeded surround and cornice to left. Three 3-light wood casements to first floor with wood cornices, 3 cross-gables to roof with lead flats to valleys. Interior: extensive remains in loft of mid C13 aisled hall with passing braces and reconstruction of c.1300 base cruck and crown-post roof, cross-wing to left has crown-post roof and C17 wooden dovecote. Arch-braced collar-truss visible to main bedroom. History: home of Walter de Catewy, alias Walter de Harwell, Sergeant-at-arms to Edward III 1341-1361, and of his son Thomas, M.P. for Berkshire. Seized by William of Wykeham in 1370 and from 1392 forded part of Winchester bishopric estates. ("Harwell, Village for a Thousand Years", Pub. Harwell P.C. 1985; The Bishop of Winchester's Medieval Manor House at Harwell, Berkshire and its relevance in the Evolution of Timber-framed Aisled Halls, by J. M. Fletcher in Archaeological Journal, Vol 136, 1979, p173-192)
Listing NGR: SU4911489121
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 249986
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Harwell Village for a Thousand Years, (1985)
Archaeological Journal in Archaeological Journal, Vol. 136, (1979), 173-192
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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