Sydney Cottage and The Lodge

Sydney Cottage and The Lodge, Pytts Lane, Burford , OX18 4SJ

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1225191
Date first listed:
12-Sept-1955
List Entry Name:
Sydney Cottage and The Lodge
Statutory Address:
Sydney Cottage and The Lodge, Pytts Lane, Burford , OX18 4SJ

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1225191
Date first listed:
12-Sept-1955
List Entry Name:
Sydney Cottage and The Lodge
Statutory Address 1:
Sydney Cottage and The Lodge, Pytts Lane, Burford , OX18 4SJ

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
Sydney Cottage and The Lodge, Pytts Lane, Burford , OX18 4SJ

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:
SP2525512082

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 8 July 2024 to amend the name, address and reformat the text to current standards

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BURFORD AND UPTON AND SIGNET
PYTT'S LANE (East side)
Sydney Cottage and The Lodge

(Formerly listed as The Lodge)

12.9.55

GV
II

House, or large cottage including a former barn to south. Early C18, remodelled mid-C19. Coursed rubble with Cotswold stone roof. Faces East (garden) with two two-storey gables with architraves and keys to glazing-bar sash windows, coped verges and finials and a large window to south with marginal glazing. To road; coped verges to left, two ashlar chimneys, one storey and attic, two gabled half-dormers to left and centre, all windows are glazing-bar sashes, glazed door between.

The house extends uphill to right into a converted barn - three ashlar chimneys, ivy-clad road front with a C20 bulls-eye window at low level and only one slit-vent, to garden two storeys and attic with gabled dormer. The two parts are linked by a lobby with a six-panel door (raised and fielded) with bracketed flat hood; decorative cast-iron lamp-bracket to left of it.

Interior not inspected.

Listing NGR: SP2525512082

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
421464
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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