1, FRANKLIN CLOSE
1, FRANKLIN CLOSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1220324
- Date first listed:
- 26-Feb-1988
- List Entry Name:
- 1, FRANKLIN CLOSE
- Statutory Address:
- 1, FRANKLIN CLOSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1220324
- Date first listed:
- 26-Feb-1988
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 18-Oct-2010
- List Entry Name:
- 1, FRANKLIN CLOSE
- Statutory Address 1:
- 1, FRANKLIN CLOSE
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:
- 1, FRANKLIN CLOSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- Cherwell (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Kidlington
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 49594 14454
Details
KIDLINGTON
1702/10/83 FRANKLIN CLOSE 26-FEB-88 (South side) 1 (Formerly listed as: CHURCH STREET 16 AND 18)
II Two houses, now a single dwelling. Left-hand house is early C17, right-hand house is late C18.
MATERIALS: Coursed limestone rubble. Left-hand house has thatched roof. Right-hand house has stone slate roof .
EXTERIOR: Both houses of two storeys. Left-hand house is of 3-unit plan, with C19 three-light casements. Left-hand bay has C19 plank doors to main entrance and loft. Brick ridge stack and stone end stack. Right-hand house is of 2-unit plan with brick end stack. C19 plank door and three-light casements beneath timber lintels.
INTERIOR: Not surveyed.
REASONS FOR DESIGNATION: No. 1 Franklin Close is designated Grade II for the following principal reason: * Early fabric: a pair of C17 and C18 vernacular stone cottages.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 394070
- 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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