Kirtlington Park
KIRTLINGTON PARK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1200202
- Date first listed:
- 26-Nov-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Kirtlington Park
- Statutory Address:
- KIRTLINGTON PARK
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1200202
- Date first listed:
- 26-Nov-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Kirtlington Park
- Statutory Address 1:
- KIRTLINGTON PARK
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:
- KIRTLINGTON PARK
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- Cherwell (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Kirtlington
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 50822 19833
Details
SP5019 KIRTLINGTON
16/44 Kirtlington Park 26/11/51
GV I
Country house. 1742-6 by William Smith and John Sanderson for Sir James Dashwood; interior decoration completed mid C19. Limestone ashlar. Double-depth central block linked to square pavilions by low corridors turning through ninety degrees. Palladian style; 9- by 6-window central block has an engaged tetrastyle Ionic portico with a richly-carved triangular pediment flanked by a balustraded parapet and modillion cornice; the architraved windows have alternating segmental and triangular pediments above tall 15-pane sashes, in the piano nobile, and have 12-pane sashes at second floor. The wide balustraded double staircase rises above a rusticated basement. At the rear the windows of the piano nobile have triple-stepped keyblocks below floating cornices, and the central window has a pilastered surround supporting a Gibbsian arch; the central bays break forward below a second triangular pediment and above a double staircase of a different configuration. The flanking corridors contain pedimented doorways and niches. The 5- by 5-window pavilions also have pediments over the middle 3 bays, and their roofs bear cupolas. Interior not inspected but notable for the rich Palladian decoration of the hall and the Rococo interior of the library (stucco work attributed to Roberts of Oxford), and the painted decoration of the Monkey Room by J.F. Clermont. The Rococo decoration of the dining room was removed in 1931 to New York. The house is set in a park landscaped by Capability Brown.
Listing NGR: SP5082219833
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 243429
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
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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