Wheatcroft
WHEATCROFT, NORTH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1225436
- Date first listed:
- 26-Feb-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Wheatcroft
- Statutory Address:
- WHEATCROFT, NORTH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1225436
- Date first listed:
- 26-Feb-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Wheatcroft
- Statutory Address 1:
- WHEATCROFT, NORTH 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:
- WHEATCROFT, NORTH 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 52248 29421
Details
FRITWELL NORTH STREET SP52NW (South side) 3/40 Wheatcroft - II
Inn, now house. Early/mid C17 and C18, altered and extended C20. Coursed limestone rubble with wooden lintels; Welsh-slate roof with stone-and-brick gable stacks. L-plan. 2 storeys. 2-window front of C18 range has a central doorway, plus 12-pane sashes at first floor with stop-chamfered lintels and tripartite sashes below, one re-sited. Lower C20 wing breaks forward to left and incorporates an earlier subsidiary range. Large C17 rear wing, returning from left end of C18 range, retains some old casements with stop-chamfered lintels, and has a canted 2-storey projection, probably formerly a staircase. Large stack on rear gable has 2 diagonal shafts, part ashlar and part brick. Interior: C17 range has stop-chamfered joists and beams, plus a large open fireplace with canted sides and a heavy bressumer with bold chamfer-stops. Formerly The Wheatsheaf Inn. C20 extension is not of special architectural interest. (VCH: Oxfordshire, Vol VI, p135)
Listing NGR: SP5224829421
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 421624
- 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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