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
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1213533
- Date first listed:
- 28-Mar-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Merryfields House and Attached Walls and Gazebo
- Statutory Address:
- MERRYFIELDS HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALLS AND GAZEBO, NEW YATT ROAD
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1213533
- Date first listed:
- 28-Mar-1973
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 03-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Merryfields House and Attached Walls and Gazebo
- Statutory Address 1:
- MERRYFIELDS HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALLS AND GAZEBO, NEW YATT 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:
- 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
Books and journals
Country Life in Country Life, (1948)
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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