Cotman House
COTMAN HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1200304
- Date first listed:
- 20-Sept-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Cotman House
- Statutory Address:
- COTMAN HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1200304
- Date first listed:
- 20-Sept-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Cotman House
- Statutory Address 1:
- COTMAN 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:
- COTMAN HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- Cherwell (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Shenington with Alkerton
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 37246 42862
Details
SHENINGTON WITH ALKERTON SHENINGTON SP 3642-3742 7/68 Cotman House GV II Rectory, now house. C16/C17 origins, partly rebuilt after fire in 1721. Garden front. Ironstone ashlar with coursed ironstone rubble to sides. Steeply pitched stone slate roof laid to diminishing courses. C20-tile roofs to rear. Stone coped gables with moulded kneelers. Renewed brick ridge stacks. Rear ranges have brick or stone end stacks, one brick stack is on a stone base. 2-unit early C18 front range with 2-unit service wing to rear plus gabled staircase projection and lower gabled part altogether roughly forming an L-plan. 2 storeys plus attic. 3-window range. Approximately central entrance has panelled/glazed door and is flanked by paired sash windows with glazing bars and wood lintels. First floor has three 3-light windows with opening casements. Three 2-light roof dormers. Sun alliance fire plaque on first floor lintel. Rear. Gabled staircase projection has 2-light windows with wood lintels, a C19 round headed window and a 2-light window high up which has lead cames and crown glass. Right end shows service wing of 2 different heights. Higher part on left. 4-panelled door and 3-light casement on ground floor. 16-pane sash window to first floor. Roof dormer. Right part has a 2-light window on ground floor and a 3-light window to first floor. Wood lintels. Interior. Early C18 range. 2 principal rooms divided by entrance hall have marble fireplaces, boxed beams and pine fittings. Kitchen has wide stone fireplace with stop-chamfered bressumer and pine cupboards with H hinges. Old service room has stop-chamfered beam, wide fireplace with stop-chamfered bressumer, bread oven and housing for copper. 2 small wood mullioned windows with wooden shutters used for ventilation. Stone spiral staircase to cellar has pine door with double hinge device. 2-light stone mullioned windows with reset ovolo mullions and one with a C13 style head. Vaulted stone ceiling and stone pitchings. 2-panelled and 4-panelled doors, pine cupboards with H and L shaped iron hinges. Early C18 front range has a 3- bay butt purlin roof. Stone flag floors and wide floor boards throughout. (VCH: Oxfordshire: Vol IX, p140)
Listing NGR: SP3724642862
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 244624
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1969), 140
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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