PARK HOUSE AND GATEPIERS ATTACHED TO WEST END

PARK HOUSE AND GATEPIERS ATTACHED TO WEST END, WITNEY STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1225701
Date first listed:: 01-Mar-1990
List Entry Name:: PARK HOUSE AND GATEPIERS ATTACHED TO WEST END
Statutory Address:: PARK HOUSE AND GATEPIERS ATTACHED TO WEST END, WITNEY STREET

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Date:: 2006-06-16
Reference:: IOE01/12468/19
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1225701
Date first listed:: 01-Mar-1990
List Entry Name:: PARK HOUSE AND GATEPIERS ATTACHED TO WEST END
Statutory Address 1:: PARK HOUSE AND GATEPIERS ATTACHED TO WEST END, WITNEY STREET

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: PARK HOUSE AND GATEPIERS ATTACHED TO WEST END, WITNEY STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Oxfordshire
District:: West Oxfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Burford
National Grid Reference:: SP 25317 12131

Details

BURFORD AND UPTON WITNEY STREET AND SIGNET (South side) SP2512 (Enlargement) Park House and gate- 7/255 piers attached to west end.

GV II

Former stables of the Great House (q.v.). Previously known as Great House Yard. Possibly late C17 but very probably mid-C19 converted. Coursed and dressed rubble, Cotswold stone roof with coped gables and ashlar end chimneys. Symmetrical elevation of 2 storeys and attic. 5 bays plus one- bay flanking wings (altered) with continuous plat-band. 3 hipped dormers, the right-hand one a large half-dormer. 1 window on ground floor to right, 4 small rectangular windows to left of it. The right-hand wing has a hipped dormer. Gable end to west has a bullseye window modelled on the Great House adjacant to west (q.v.). Rear has 3 hipped dormers, balustraded bay to right, 2 arched entries roughly central. Rubble gatepiers linked by a short link wall, cornice and engaged ball-finials, baluster-top hinge pilasters. Included for group value. (shown on OS map as the Great House Yard)

Listing NGR: SP2531712131

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Legacy System number:: 422182
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.