Merryfields House and Attached Walls and Gazebo
MERRYFIELDS HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALLS AND GAZEBO, NEW YATT ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1213533
- Date first listed:
- 28-Mar-1973
- Statutory Address:
- MERRYFIELDS HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALLS AND GAZEBO, NEW YATT ROAD
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1213533
- Date first listed:
- 28-Mar-1973
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 03-Mar-1988
- Statutory Address 1:
- MERRYFIELDS HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALLS AND GAZEBO, NEW YATT ROAD
Location
- Statutory Address:
- MERRYFIELDS HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALLS AND GAZEBO, NEW YATT ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- West Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Witney
- National Grid Reference:
- SP3620810942
Details
WITNEY NEW YATT ROAD
SP3610 (West side)
6/205 Merryfields House and attached
28/03/73 walls and gazebo
(Formerly listed as
Merryfields House)
- II
House. 1927, by Oliver Hill for Sidney Smith. Coursed stone rubble; gabled stone
slate roof; stone end stacks, Central-staircase plan with canted side-wings.
Arts and Crafts style. 2 storeys; 7-window range, Central porch, of 2 storeys
and attic, has chamfered 4-centred arched architrave to plank door with strap
hinges, flat stone arch over 2-light casement and lunette to attic, Flat stone
arches, slightly cambered, over 2-light casements. One-storey side wings,
attached to 10 metre long wall with ball finial, to right, and 7 metre long wall
finished with prramidal-roofed gazebo, to left. Similar rear elevation, with
central carved panel by Eric Gill. Interior: stop-chamfered beams and open
fireplaces with stop-chamfered brassumers; heavy plank doors with strap hinges;
fine dog-leg stairs have heavy turned balusters and newel-post finials.
(C.Hussey, "Merryfields House, Witney", Country life, 2 Jan.1948).
Listing NGR: SP3620810942
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 398146
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
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Country Life in Country Life, (1948)
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