SUMMERHOUSE APPROXIMATELY 40 METRES TO NORTH OF ORCHARD LEA HOUSE

SUMMERHOUSE APPROXIMATELY 40 METRES TO NORTH OF ORCHARD LEA HOUSE, SOUTH SIDE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1226000
Date first listed:: 08-Dec-1955
List Entry Name:: SUMMERHOUSE APPROXIMATELY 40 METRES TO NORTH OF ORCHARD LEA HOUSE
Statutory Address:: SUMMERHOUSE APPROXIMATELY 40 METRES TO NORTH OF ORCHARD LEA HOUSE, SOUTH SIDE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1226000
Date first listed:: 08-Dec-1955
Date of most recent amendment:: 26-Feb-1988
List Entry Name:: SUMMERHOUSE APPROXIMATELY 40 METRES TO NORTH OF ORCHARD LEA HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: SUMMERHOUSE APPROXIMATELY 40 METRES TO NORTH OF ORCHARD LEA HOUSE, SOUTH SIDE

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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Location

Statutory Address:: SUMMERHOUSE APPROXIMATELY 40 METRES TO NORTH OF 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:: SP4747625759

Details

STEEPLE ASTON SOUTH SIDE SP4725 (North side) 9/131 Summerhouse approx. 40m to N 08/12/55 of Orchard Lea House (Formerly listed as Orchard Lea with summerhouse) GV II

Summeerhouse. Probably early C19 but possibly C18. Brick and limestone rubble; Stonesfield-slate roof. Rectangular plan. Gothick style. Symmetrical brick front has 3 tall openings below a continuous stone band; the central door and flanking 12-pane sashes all have ogee heads formed within the top rail. Sides and rear are of rubble, and there is a large window to rear. Roof has a longer slope in rear. Orchard Lea House (q.v.) was bought c.1760 by John McClary, chief gardener at Rousham Park, who could have built the summerhouse under the influence of William Kent. (VCH: Oxfordshire. Vol XI, p24; Buildings of England: Oxfordshire: p787)

Listing NGR: SP4747625759

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Legacy System number:: 422991
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 787
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1983), 24

Legal

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