The Ridge House
THE RIDGE HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1200598
- Date first listed:
- 05-May-1988
- List Entry Name:
- The Ridge House
- Statutory Address:
- THE RIDGE HOUSE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1200598
- Date first listed:
- 05-May-1988
- List Entry Name:
- The Ridge House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE RIDGE 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:
- THE RIDGE HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- Cherwell (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Duns Tew
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 45732 28404
Details
SP4528 DUNS TEW 9/260 The Ridge House
GV II House. Early/mid C17. Coursed limestone rubble with wooden lintels; thatch roof with brick stacks. 3-unit plan in 2 builds plus outbuilding ranges. 2 storeys plus attic and one storey plus attic. Right half of main range is taller and has two 3-light casements at first floor, a similar window below, plus another which was formerly an entrance; right bay has a mutilated stone-mullioned cellar window with moulded label. Left half of front has two 3-light casements plus the entrance at ground floor, and has a 3-light dormer in bay one. Steep-pitched roof has a small inset dormer in bay 3 and has stacks to right of bays one and 4. A lower range to right was formerly a 3-bay outbuilding but is now part of the house; a further single-storey range returns to rear from left end of main range. Interior: stop-chamfered joists and spine beams; open fireplace with chamfered bressumer; chamber fireplace with cambered stop-chamfered bressumer; winder stairs. (VCH: Oxfordshire: Vol XI, p211)
Listing NGR: SP4573228404
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 243987
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1983), 211
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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