Spittal's Farmhouse
SPITTAL'S FARMHOUSE, MAIN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1215918
- Date first listed:
- 08-Dec-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Spittal's Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- SPITTAL'S FARMHOUSE, MAIN STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1215918
- Date first listed:
- 08-Dec-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Spittal's Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- SPITTAL'S FARMHOUSE, MAIN STREET
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:
- SPITTAL'S FARMHOUSE, MAIN STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- Cherwell (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Bourton
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 45847 45547
Details
SP4545
17/4
08/12/55
BOURTON
MAIN STREET
(South side)
Great Bourton
Spittal's Farmhouse
GV
II
Farmhouse. Late C17 (c.1680) with single-storey addition on left dated W.J/1797
possibly for William Jeffs. Main part. Squared coursed ironstone. Steeply
pitched but lowered slate roof. Brick end and ridge stacks, stack on ridge on a
chamfered stone base. 2-unit plan plus extension. 2 storeys, 2-window range.
Approximately central entrance reached via 3 semi-circular. stone steps and
flight of stone steps. Entrance has an original ledged and battened oak door,
4-centred arched head and hood mould with label stop. Entrance is flanked by
3-light metal casements inserted within stone surrounds. Hood mould and
label stops and a 3-light casement window with hood mould and label stops. Left
end has a 3-light ovolo mullion window. Left part. Single storey, 1 window.
Entrance to left has plank door and moulded wood doorframe and stop-chamfered
wood lintel. 3-light metal casement to right with wood lintel. Wrought-iron
casement fasteners and springs. Interior noted as having 4-centred arched stone
fireplaces, inglenook fireplaces and an early stud partition on ground floor.
(VCH:Oxfordshire; Vol X, p176; Wood-Jones, R.B.; 1963, pp130-1 and fig 35)
Listing NGR: SP4584745547
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 401172
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1972), 176
Wood-Jones, R B, Traditional Domestic Architecture in the Banbury Region, (1963), 130-1
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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