Proffitt's House
PROFFITT'S HOUSE, MILLER'S LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1216568
- Date first listed:
- 08-Dec-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Proffitt's House
- Statutory Address:
- PROFFITT'S HOUSE, MILLER'S LANE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1216568
- Date first listed:
- 08-Dec-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Proffitt's House
- Statutory Address 1:
- PROFFITT'S HOUSE, MILLER'S 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:
- PROFFITT'S HOUSE, MILLER'S LANE
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 39326 45072
Details
HORNTON MILLER'S LANE SP3845 (East side) aids) 16/125 Proffitt's House 08/12/55
GV II*
House and cottage now one dwelling. Mid C17. Squared, coursed ironstone. Steeply pitched thatched roof. Stone-coped gable on right without kneeler. Base for ball finial. Altered stone end stack with chamfered case and similar ridge stacks one with renewed blue brick shaft. 3-unit plan and single-unit plan. Single storey plus attic throughout, 4-window attic range. Common entrance passage shared by the two dwellings has a 6-panelled door with moulded wood surround and wood lintel. To left two 4-light and a 7-light stone mullioned window. To right a 4-light stone mullioned window. Hood moulds with label stops. Attic has an eyebrow dormer with 3-light metal casement in stone surrounds and wood lintel. 2 half-dormers with 2- and 3-light metal casements with stone surrounds and wood lintels. Attic floor on right has a 3-light stone mullioned window. Wood-Jones suggests that the relationship of 2 buildings sharing a common entrance passage to a common yard shows a kinship siting for family groups; seperate dwellings being erected for members of the same family on the original family plot. Proffitt's House has 2 seperate fireplaces backing on to the common entrance passage. Interior not inspected. (Buildings of England; Oxfordshire; 1974, p655; VCH; Oxfordshire; Vol IX, p125; Wood-Jones, R.B., 1963, p253)
Listing NGR: SP3932645072
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 401991
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1969), 125
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 655
Wood-Jones, R B, Traditional Domestic Architecture in the Banbury Region, (1963), 283
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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