Cob House
COB HOUSE, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1224292
- Date first listed:
- 12-Sept-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Cob House
- Statutory Address:
- COB HOUSE, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1224292
- Date first listed:
- 12-Sept-1955
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 01-Mar-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Cob House
- Statutory Address 1:
- COB 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:
- COB 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 25181 12420
Details
BURFORD AND UPTON HIGH STREET AND SIGNET (West Side) SP2512 (Enlargement) Cob House (Previously 7/111 listed as part of The 12.9.55 Vicarage).
GV II*
Formerly a wing of the Parsonage House, now a separate dwelling. Dated 1672, could be attributable to one of the craftsman in the Oxford-Wren circle, Christopher Kempster the local man being the favourite. Freestone front, chamfered quoins with rebated corners to upper floors, Cotswold stone roof, ashlar end chimney to right. 2 storeys; 3 bays. The main point of the front are the 3 pedimented features built up over the eaves, the outer triangular the centre segmental and dated, with moulded cornices and flat-edged blocked oval panels. Imposing 1st floor piano-nobile with architraves and cornices to stone cross mullion windows. The ground floor is really a basement or rustic, see the chamfered plinth and the less good quality stone. Mullioned windows in moulded architraves, perhaps a remodelling, note straight joint near South end; cellar grating. The South return is in coursed rubble, 2 blocked 1st floor windows with simple architraves, blocked oval in attic. Entered from single-storey extension to right built of ashlar, set at an angle and with a 4-panel door. The main roan of this building was a 1st floor roan now subdivided. The building formed originally the East wing of the Old Vicarage (q.v.).
Listing NGR: SP2518112420
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 420234
- 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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