Canal Cottage and Attached Railings
CANAL COTTAGE AND ATTACHED RAILINGS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1225683
- Date first listed:
- 26-Feb-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Canal Cottage and Attached Railings
- Statutory Address:
- CANAL COTTAGE AND ATTACHED RAILINGS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1225683
- Date first listed:
- 26-Feb-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Canal Cottage and Attached Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- CANAL COTTAGE AND ATTACHED RAILINGS
- Statutory Address 2:
- CANAL COTTAGE AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, STATION 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:
- CANAL COTTAGE AND ATTACHED RAILINGS
- Statutory Address:
- CANAL COTTAGE AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, STATION ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- Cherwell (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Lower Heyford
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 48347 24677
Details
LOWER HEYFORD STATION ROAD SP4824 (North side) 10/74 Canal Cottage and attached railings GV II
Canal house. Early C19. Red brick in Flemish bond with limestone lintels: Welsh-slate roof with brick stacks. L plan. 2 storeys. Symmetrical 3-window front has a central doorway, with a small stone canopy on shaped brackets, below a blind window, outer bays have 16-pane sashes. Shallow-pitched roof projects at the eaves and verge, and has stacks at both ends. Rear wing, returning from right, has a large sash, 5 panes wide, facing left. Interior not inspected. Railings curve out iron the right side of the front and link to panelled stone central gatepiers; to left a low brick wall links a straight section of railings to the house, and both adjoin a rubble approach wall to the canal bridge (q.v.). Formerly the manager's house for Grantham's Wharf. (VCH: Oxfordshire, Vol VI, p182)
Listing NGR: SP4834724677
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 422081
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1962), 182
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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