Darville Cottage Darville House Old Barn Cottage
DARVILLE COTTAGE, STATION ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1225692
- Date first listed:
- 26-Feb-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Darville Cottage Darville House Old Barn Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- DARVILLE COTTAGE, STATION ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1225692
- Date first listed:
- 26-Feb-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Darville Cottage Darville House Old Barn Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- DARVILLE COTTAGE, STATION ROAD
- Statutory Address 2:
- DARVILLE HOUSE, STATION ROAD
- Statutory Address 3:
- OLD BARN COTTAGE, 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:
- DARVILLE COTTAGE, STATION ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- DARVILLE HOUSE, STATION ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- OLD BARN COTTAGE, 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 48468 24647
Details
LOWER HEYFORD STATION ROAD SP4824 (South side) 10/75 Darville House, Darville Cottage and Old Barn Cottage - II
Inn and outbuildings, now 3 houses. Early C18 altered C20. Colourwashed rubble with some wooden lintels; Welsh-slate roof with brick stacks. Single range with rear additions. 2 storeys plus attic. 3-window front of Darville House to right (formerly the public bars) has early-C19 canted 2-storey bay windows with sashes, in the outer bays, and in the middle bay has a 16-pane sash above a smaller bay window; the 6-panel door is set to left of centre. Darville Cottage, to left, has an irregular 3-window front with renewed 2-light casements and a further entrance; the right bay is earlier and has a rubble flat arch over the ground-floor window. Old Barn Cottage, to left again, was converted from an outbuilding range and has C20 casements. Additions to rear of the houses are mainly. C20, but to rear of Darville House a C18 rear wing is now linked to an earlier bear store, all part of the house, Interior: Darville House has chamfered joists and beams to both floors, a large inglenook fireplace with chamfered cambered bressumer, and has some C18 doors plus the upper flight of a quarter-turn stair with winders; roof has butt purlins with through tenons. Interiors of Darville Cottage and Old Barn Cottage not inspected. Formerly the Red Lion Inn. (VCH: Oxfordshire, Vol VI, p183)
Listing NGR: SP4846824647
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 422082
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1962), 183
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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