Riverside House
RIVERSIDE HOUSE, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1223724
- Date first listed:
- 12-Sept-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Riverside House
- Statutory Address:
- RIVERSIDE HOUSE, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1223724
- Date first listed:
- 12-Sept-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Riverside House
- Statutory Address 1:
- RIVERSIDE HOUSE, HIGH 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:
- RIVERSIDE HOUSE, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- West Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Burford
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 25216 12445
Details
BURFORD AND UPTON HIGH STREET AND SIGNET (East Side) SP2512 (Enlargement) Riverside House 7/49 12.9.55
GV II*
Town House. Late C18, altered and extended. Ashlar with slate roof to main part, mostly Cotswold stone roofs otherwise, and some tiles. In 2 parts to front. The left hand part is 3-storeyed with chamfered quoins, band over ground floor, moulded cornice over 1st floor, modillion cornice and parapet to 2nd floor. Coped verges with convex ramps to gable ends, ashlar chimneys. Central 2-storey angled bay with parapet and moulded string over ground floor. Glazing bar sash windows in raised flat architraves. Two tripartite windows on 2nd floor. The right hand part is slightly set back, 2 storeys with cornice and parapet, chamfered quoins to right, 1st floor cill band. 2 windows, 6-panelled door of c.1790s to left with radial glazing to transom light and brackets to open pedimented stone hood. The main entrance is in a Victorian (c.1869) 2-storey extension to East through a large bracketed gabled porch, the former entrance is now a 3-light window; this extension is in a Gothic style, the lancet East windows have foliage spandrels and the initials "T.H.C." - it cost £505. T-plan hipped extension to South of this with a reset 2-light C15 Perpendicular window. Long 2-storey rear extension to rear of South block, some C17 features - eg 2 pairs of hollow chamfered mullion windows; 4 windows to South, irregular; coped gable end with C19 3-light mullion window on 1st floor and cusped circular vent. The best features internally are in the bay window rooms - anthemion friezes, coloured marble fire-places (on 1st floor with relief panel in centre of frieze of c.1770), rails and fielded panel doors and reveals; stairs probably C18, the stairhall retains modillion cornice in part. An excellent Cotswold Town House, very important in its setting at end of the High Street.
Listing NGR: SP2521612445
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 419547
- 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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