Orchard Lea House
ORCHARD LEA HOUSE, SOUTH SIDE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1225951
- Date first listed:
- 08-Dec-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Orchard Lea House
- Statutory Address:
- ORCHARD LEA HOUSE, SOUTH SIDE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1225951
- Date first listed:
- 08-Dec-1955
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 26-Feb-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Orchard Lea House
- Statutory Address 1:
- ORCHARD LEA HOUSE, SOUTH SIDE
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:
- ORCHARD LEA HOUSE, SOUTH SIDE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- Cherwell (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Steeple Aston
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 47467 25734
Details
STEEPLE ASTON SOUTH SIDE SP4725 (North side) 9/130 Orchard Lea House 08/12/55 (Formerly listed as Orchard Lea with summerhouse) GV II
House. Probably originally C17, extended early C18 and re-modelled mid/late C18. Limestone and marlstone rubble with some banding and marlstone dressings; Stonesfield-slate and Welsh-slate roofs. 2 parallel ranges plus service range. 2 storeys plus attic. 3-window front, in banded squared rubble with marlstone-ashlar dressings, is probably mid/late C18 on a C17 range; it has a central 6-panel door below a 2-light window, both with flat arches and projecting keyblocks, but the outer bays have 3-light casements with lintels. All windows have C20 casements and the ground-floor right window has been altered to a rectangular bay. Single-storey range to left has 12-pane sashes (one early C18 with thick bars) flanking a panelled door. Symmetrical 3-window garden front, at a lower level, has storey band, flat arches, banding and large quoins to the first-floor windows, all in marlstone rubble; lower sashes flanking the doorway are early C18 with thick glazing bars, but taller sashes above are probably mid/late C18. Both roofs have stone gable parapets. Interior: several C18 pine fireplaces and panelled dados; C18 stair with turned balusters. See also Summerhouse (VCH: Oxfordshire: Vol XI, p24; Buildings of England: Oxfordshire: p707)
Listing NGR: SP4746725734
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 422986
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1983), 24
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 707
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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