Hardwick House
Hardwick House, Southam Road
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1200559
- Date first listed:
- 09-Apr-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Hardwick House
- Statutory Address:
- Hardwick House, Southam Road
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1200559
- Date first listed:
- 09-Apr-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 14-Feb-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Hardwick House
- Statutory Address 1:
- Hardwick House, Southam Road
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:
- Hardwick House, Southam Road
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- Cherwell (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Banbury
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 45899 42956
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 29/04/2020
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BANBURY
Hardwick
SOUTHAM ROAD (East side)
Hardwick House
(formerly listed as Hardwick Farmhouse)
09/04/52
II*
Farmhouse. Probably C16, with later alterations and extensions. Main front: stuccoed ironstone, steeply pitched red tile roof, brick ridge and end stacks including a massive central stack on a stone base, stone plinth. E-plan.
Two storeys plus attic; five-window; range. Entrance to left has four-centred arched stone doorway with chamfered jambs and soffit. Plank door with wrought-iron strap-hinges and C20 porch. Garage opening to left. To right: a two-light stone-mullioned window with four-centred heads and incised spandrel decoration; a partly blocked similar window; a blocked doorway. First floor has three and five-light wood-mullioned windows and three C20 windows. Two, three-light roof dormers with raking roofs.
Right end: central doorway has four-panelled door, overlight and wooden doorcase with hood. Two two-light stone-mullioned windows with four-centred arched heads to left. A four-light window with cambered head to right. First floor has three and four-light wood-mullioned and transomed windows. Mullions are ovolo in section. Left end: brick and ironstone. Single storey extensions have hipped or catslide slate roof. Two-storey gabled projection to far left.
Rear: two-storey wings to left and right with a two-storey rectangular ironstone projection, and two-storey brick staircase projection in between. A three-light stone-mullioned window with four-centred arched heads and two and three-light casements. Some windows have wrought iron casement fasteners.
Interior: cellar with brick lining and stone flat floor with runnel. Stone flag floors. Massive, chamfered beams. Four-centred arched doorways. Plank doors. Wide floorboards in attics. Winder staircases. Large inglenook fireplace now mostly concealed behind later wall and cupboard in ground floor room to right of main entrance. Four-bay collar truss roof with butt purlins and wind braces, pegged at the apex.
Reputed to incorporate early C16 doorways and windows from an earlier manor house situated to the north of the present farmhouse. From C15 to C17 the Hardwick estate was held by members of the Cope family, prominent in local and national affairs.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 244500
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1972), 46
Beesley, A, History of Banbury, (1841), 615
Beesley, A, History of Banbury, (1841), 191 261
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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