The Limes
THE LIMES, EAST STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1225336
- Date first listed:
- 26-Feb-1988
- List Entry Name:
- The Limes
- Statutory Address:
- THE LIMES, EAST STREET
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- 2001-06-29
- Reference:
- IOE01/04174/18
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1225336
- Date first listed:
- 26-Feb-1988
- List Entry Name:
- The Limes
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE LIMES, EAST 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 LIMES, EAST STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- Cherwell (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Fritwell
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 52690 28970
Details
FRITWELL EAST STREET SP52NW (West side) 3/32 The Limes GV II
House. Late C17/early C18, and late C18/early C19. Limestone rubble with wooden lintels; artificial stone-slate roofs with stone-and-brick stacks. 2-unit plan, enlarged to 3 units. 2 storeys plus attic, and 2 storeys, 3-window front of earlier range has renewed 16-pane sashes and a blocked central door; there is also a small blocked first-floor window to extreme left. Steep-pitched roof has 2 gabled roof dormers and has stone-based gable stacks. The added bay to left has contemporary 2-light casements plus the present main entrance with a heavy plank door. The shallow-pitched roof has a brick stack to left. Right gable wall of main range has a pair of narrow windows plus similar blocked openings above. Rear has a tall central stair projection with a leaded casement in the gable. Interior: Open fireplace; spiral stair rising to attics; some re-used C17 panelling; butt-purlin roof. (VCH: Oxfordshire, Vol VI, p135)
Listing NGR: SP5269028970
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 421616
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1962), 135
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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