Factory Building Outbuilding Attached to Number 55
55, WEST END
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1213992
- Date first listed:
- 09-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Factory Building Outbuilding Attached to Number 55
- Statutory Address:
- 55, WEST END
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1213992
- Date first listed:
- 09-Sept-1987
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 03-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Factory Building Outbuilding Attached to Number 55
- Statutory Address 1:
- 55, WEST END
- Statutory Address 2:
- FACTORY BUILDING, WEST END
- Statutory Address 3:
- OUTBUILDING ATTACHED TO NUMBER 55, WEST END
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:
- 55, WEST END
- Statutory Address:
- FACTORY BUILDING, WEST END
- Statutory Address:
- OUTBUILDING ATTACHED TO NUMBER 55, WEST END
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:
- SP3569410503
Details
WITNEY WEST END
SP3510, SP3510SE (South side)
5/254, 9/254 No.55 and attached outbuilding
9/09/87 and factory building
(Formerly listed as Nos.55 and
57)
GV II
House, made into blanket-making factory in early C19 and now offices and store.
Late C17/early C18, with later alterations. Coursed limestone rubble; C19 stucco
front. Gabled stone slate roof; ridge stack of stone finished in brick. L-plan
with rear left wing. 2 storeys; 5-window range. Timber lintel over through-entry
with C19 plank doors to right. C20 windows except late C17/early C18
wood-mullioned and transomed cross windows to right of first floor (3) and to
left of ground floor (2). Gabled hoist opening has plank door and wood
jib-crane. Two late C17 and early C18 two-storey ranges to rear left, of similar
materials, with early C19 keyed brick segmental arches over openings and two C18
gabled roof dormers. Interior: stop-chamfered and chamfered beams. Collar-truss
roof with butt purlins, and butt-purlin roof to rear left. Subsidiary features:
late C17/early C18 outbuilding to rear left, of similar materials: L-plan, of 2
storeys; plank door beneath stone steps to plank loft door; interior has C19
cobbled runway, chamfered beams and C17 collar truss to rear. Early C19 factory
further to rear, of squared and coursed limestone with gabled Welsh-slate roof.
3-storey, 4-window range. Keyed brick segmental arches, segmental stone arches
and attic timber lintels over casement windows; plank loft doors to first floor
and attic, the latter with iron jib-crane. Interior; chamfered beams,
quarter-turn stairs and king-post roof. Formerly a blanket-making factory owned
by the Early family. (See 1876 O.S, map).
Listing NGR: SP3569410503
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 398666
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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