Dovecote Farmhouse
DOVECOTE FARMHOUSE, NORTH ASTON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1225712
- Date first listed:
- 26-Feb-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Dovecote Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- DOVECOTE FARMHOUSE, NORTH ASTON ROAD
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1225712
- Date first listed:
- 26-Feb-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Dovecote Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- DOVECOTE FARMHOUSE, NORTH ASTON 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:
- DOVECOTE FARMHOUSE, NORTH ASTON 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 49808 28691
Details
SOMERTON NORTH ASTON ROAD SP42NE (South side) 2/90 Dovecote Farmhouse GV II
Farmhouse. C17, early C18 and late C18/early C19. Limestone rubble, partly squared and coursed, with wooden lintels and some ashlar dressings; Welsh-slate roofs with stone-and-brick gable stacks. 3-unit plan, extended. 2 storeys and 2 storeys plus attic. The left range is earlier, probably part C17 and part early C18, and has irregularly-arranged casements of 2 and 3 lights plus 2 entrances, one with panelled double doors; the left half has been raised (probably late C18) and has a shallower roof with stone-based gable stacks. The right range, joining at an oblique angle, is of c.1800 and has a symmetrical 3-window front with leaded transomed casements, of 3 lights in the outer bays, but of 2 lights over the arched doorway which has a fanlight and a pilastered ashlar surround; all windows have ashlar flat arches, at ground floor with label moulds. The shallow-pitched roof has projecting boxed eaves and verges. Rear of earlier range has casements of 2, 3 and 4 lights, some with stop-chamfered lintels, but is partly obscured by 2 late-C18 hipped-roofed wings with flat-arched casements and projecting keyblocks, similar to those at the rear of the later range. A hipped-rooted C18 rubble range, forming a cross-wing to left of the earlier range, was formerly a dairy but is now part of the house. Interior: Earlier range has stop-chamfered beams, a large inglenook fireplace and C18 joinery including 2 cupboards with serpentine shelves; the later range has an open-string winder stair with mahogany handrail. (VCH: Oxfordshire, Vol VI, p291)
Listing NGR: SP4980828691
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 422208
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1962), 291
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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