Troy Farmhouse
TROY FARMHOUSE, ARDLEY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1225639
- Date first listed:
- 26-Feb-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Troy Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- TROY FARMHOUSE, ARDLEY ROAD
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- Date:
- 2001-08-28
- Reference:
- IOE01/05262/22
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1225639
- Date first listed:
- 26-Feb-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Troy Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- TROY FARMHOUSE, ARDLEY ROAD
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:
- TROY FARMHOUSE, ARDLEY ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- Cherwell (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Somerton
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 51937 27934
Details
SOMERTON ARDLEY ROAD SP52NW (North side) 3/77 Troy Farmhouse - II
Large farmhouse. Early C18, altered and extended C19. Coursed squared limestone with wooden lintels: brick; Welsh-slate roofs with brick stacks. L-plan. 2 storeys plus attic. Right bay of 5-window front is of narrower rubble and may be of earlier origin. All bays have 3-light casements to both floors except bay 3 which has a 2-liqht window above a glazed door; there is also a small window to right of bay 4. Roof has 5 gabled roof dormers with C19 bargeboards, and has 4 stacks with paired shafts. Lower wing returns on right with further casements. All openings an both ranges have chamfered lintels. Rear of main range is partly obscured by a C19 brick wing. Interior not inspected. Recorded on the site from C16 and probably on the site of a C15 manor house. Has an ancient turf maze in the grounds. (VCH: Oxfordshire, Vol VI, p291; Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, p768)
Listing NGR: SP5193727934
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 422083
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1962), 291
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 768
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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