Garden Boundary Walls of the Priory

GARDEN BOUNDARY WALLS OF THE PRIORY, PRIORY LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1225270
Date first listed:
01-Mar-1990
List Entry Name:
Garden Boundary Walls of the Priory
Statutory Address:
GARDEN BOUNDARY WALLS OF THE PRIORY, PRIORY LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1225270
Date first listed:
01-Mar-1990
List Entry Name:
Garden Boundary Walls of the Priory
Statutory Address 1:
GARDEN BOUNDARY WALLS OF THE PRIORY, PRIORY LANE

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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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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
GARDEN BOUNDARY WALLS OF THE PRIORY, PRIORY LANE

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 24979 12296

Details

BURFORD AND UPTON PRIORY LANE AND SIGNET (West end) SP2412-2512 Garden-boundary walls walls 5/183 of The Priory. - GV II

Garden walls. C16 and C17 restored C18 and C20. Rubble with coping and rounded tops mostly 2 to 4m high. The garden is enclosed to South of The Priory in two separate parts linked by pointed arch entry and 2 further plain doors; Tudor arch doorway in N wall. The walls to East and South bound Priory Lane and Sheep Street respectively. Important elements in the character of the town where they act as street boundary walls and important setting for The Priory.

Listing NGR: SP2508112287

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Legacy System number:
421572
Legacy System:
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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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