Park Cottage Park House
PARK COTTAGE, HORNTON LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1216551
- Date first listed:
- 08-Dec-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Park Cottage Park House
- Statutory Address:
- PARK COTTAGE, HORNTON LANE
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- 2004-10-01
- Reference:
- IOE01/12538/10
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1216551
- Date first listed:
- 08-Dec-1955
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 05-Jun-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Park Cottage Park House
- Statutory Address 1:
- PARK COTTAGE, HORNTON LANE
- Statutory Address 2:
- PARK HOUSE, HORNTON LANE
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:
- PARK COTTAGE, HORNTON LANE
- Statutory Address:
- PARK HOUSE, HORNTON LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- Cherwell (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Horley
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 41779 43957
Details
In the entry for HORLEY HORNTON LANE (East side) 23/102 Park House
The address shall be amended to read: HORNTON LANE (East side) Park House and Park Cottage
The description shall be amended to read:
House, now 2 dwellings. Early C14 with C17 and C18 alterations; extended and subdivided 1985. Squared coursed ironstone ; steeply-pitched Welsh slate roof; brick stacks to ridge and, on left, to front roof pitch. Originally a 3-unit plan. 2 storeys. 1 : 4 bays, the left bay added 1985 and, with the 2nd from left bay, now forming Park Cottage. Entrance on right (to Park House) has panelled-glazed door and wood lintel. To left, a 3-light metal casement in stone surround with hoodmould and label stop ; 3-light casement left again ; then two 2-light casements ; and board door to left bay. On 1st floor, four 2-light wooden casements. Rear has a C14 pointed - arched stone doorway ; a 3-light stone-mullioned window to its right ; and to its left 2 blocked small windows, the upper one ogee - headed. Interior: originally hall and service-rooms divided by through passage; C14 doorway into right-hand room probably moved from front of house ; inglenook fireplace in room on left of entrance passage ; stop-chamfered beams ; in former left-hand gable wall, a blocked 2-light pointed-arched window with plate tracery and hoodmould in whiteish stone (in Park Cottage section).
Once a possession of the Cope family.
(Buildings of England : Oxfordshire : 1974, pp 653-4 ; VCH : Oxfordshire : Vol. IX, p124).
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HORLEY HORNTON LANE SP4143 (East side) 23/102 Park House 08/12/55
- II
House. Early C14 with C17 and C18 alterations. Squared coursed ironstone. Steeply pitched slate roof. Brick ridge and end stacks. 3-unit plan. 2 storeys, 3-window range. Entrance on right has panelled-glazed door and wood lintel. To left a 3-light metal casement in stone surround. Hood mould and label stop. 3-light casement to left. First floor has three 2-light wood casements. Rear has a C14 pointed arched stone doorway and a 3-light stone mullioned window. Ogee-headed blocked window. Interior. Originally hall and service rooms divided by through passage. C14 doorway to right of entrance in the passage, probably moved from the front of the house. Inglenook fireplace. Stop-chamfered beams. Once a possession of the Cope family. (Buildings of England; Oxfordshire; 1974, p653-4; VCH; Oxfordshire; Vol IX, p124)
Listing NGR: SP4177543961
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 401968
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1969), 124
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 653-4
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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