The Mount
THE MOUNT, EASTGATE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1216566
- Date first listed:
- 08-Dec-1955
- List Entry Name:
- The Mount
- Statutory Address:
- THE MOUNT, EASTGATE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1216566
- Date first listed:
- 08-Dec-1955
- List Entry Name:
- The Mount
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE MOUNT, EASTGATE
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:
- THE MOUNT, EASTGATE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- Cherwell (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Hornton
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 39407 45062
Details
HORNTON EASTGATE SP3845 (East side) 16/120 The Mount
GV II
Farmhouse, now house, c1680. Squared, coursed ironstone. Steeply pitched red tile roof, with renewed rafters. Stone-coped gable. Stone/brick ridge and end stacks. 3-unit through-passage plan plus one-unit service wing. 2 storeys plus attic and single storey plus attic, 4-window range altogether, 2 entrances. Main part has entrance off-centre to right reached via 4 stone steps. Doorway has cambered stone head, plank door and hood mould with lozenge shaped label stops. Entrance is flanked by 2- and 3-light stone mullioned windows with hood moulds and label stops. A 3-light casement window to far left. Lead cames, wood lintel and wrought-iron casement fasteners. First floor has three 3-light wood mullioned and transomed windows with small opening casements, lead cames and wrought-iron casement fasteners. Stone-coped gables. 3 gabled roof dormers. Two 2-light stone mullioned cellar windows. Lower right part. Squared coursed ironstone. Slate roof. Stone end stack. Roof raised from single storey to single storey plus attic in C18. 1-window range. Doorway has cambered, chamfered stone head with hood mould and label stops. 3-light casement to left with hood mould and label stops, 3-light wood casement to attic. Interior noted as having plan comprising hall, parlour and kitchen, moulded spine beams. 2 winder staircases, inglenook fire places. 2 bread ovens and bredroms with corner fireplaces. A notable example of the 3-unit 'upland' plan type. (VCH; Oxfordshire; Vol IX, p125; Wood-Jones, R.B. 1963, p118-120, pl.10a, 19d, 21c, 23b)
Listing NGR: SP3940745062
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 401986
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1969), 125
Wood-Jones, R B, Traditional Domestic Architecture in the Banbury Region, (1963), 118-20
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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