The Gabled House
THE GABLED HOUSE, 162, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1224569
- Date first listed:
- 12-Sept-1955
- List Entry Name:
- The Gabled House
- Statutory Address:
- THE GABLED HOUSE, 162, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1224569
- Date first listed:
- 12-Sept-1955
- List Entry Name:
- The Gabled House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE GABLED HOUSE, 162, 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:
- THE GABLED HOUSE, 162, 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 25087 12043
Details
BURFORD AND UPTON HIGH STREET AND SIGNET (West side) SP2512 (Enlargement) No 162 (The Gabled 7/159 House) 12.9.55
GV II
House. Early-mid C17 front. Rubble with Cotswold stone roof. Plan: 2 rooms on ground floor to front with passage linking to original rear kitchen wing. May originally have had a 1st floor hall. 2 storeys and attic. 2 gables to front with moulded coping and ball finials. Dressed rubble chimney to right with moulded coping. Restored (indeed mostly new) hollow chamfer mullion windows, 3-light to attic, 4 lights below, with drips. Central Tudor arch doorway with hollow chamfer and label, plank door possibly C16 with iron work of that period. Steps up to door. Farmers Fire Insurance tablet over. Interior: ground floor left-hand room has a Tudor arch fire-place at back and a steep Tudor arch doorway giving access (formerly) to yard, perhaps once to a stair turret. The 3 ground floor rooms have chamfered joists; rear room has wide fire-place with cambered wooden lintel. The central truss incorporates a raised cruck - presumably C15 or early C16.
Listing NGR: SP2508712043
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 420676
- 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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