THE GARDEN HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALLS AND GATEPIER TO SOUTH, EAST AND WEST

THE GARDEN HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALLS AND GATEPIER TO SOUTH, EAST AND WEST, MAIN STREET

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1228045
Date first listed:: 08-Dec-1955
List Entry Name:: THE GARDEN HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALLS AND GATEPIER TO SOUTH, EAST AND WEST
Statutory Address:: THE GARDEN HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALLS AND GATEPIER TO SOUTH, EAST AND WEST, MAIN STREET

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Date:: 2003-09-30
Reference:: IOE01/11495/04
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1228045
Date first listed:: 08-Dec-1955
Date of most recent amendment:: 26-Feb-1988
List Entry Name:: THE GARDEN HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALLS AND GATEPIER TO SOUTH, EAST AND WEST
Statutory Address 1:: THE GARDEN HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALLS AND GATEPIER TO SOUTH, EAST AND WEST, MAIN 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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Location

Statutory Address:: THE GARDEN HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALLS AND GATEPIER TO SOUTH, EAST AND WEST, MAIN STREET

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

County:: Oxfordshire
District:: Cherwell (District Authority)
Parish:: Mollington
National Grid Reference:: SP 44219 47391

Details

MOLLINGTON MAIN STREET SP4447 (South side) 13/142 The Garden House and attached 08/12/55 walls and gatepier to S, E and W (Formerly listed as Post Office)

GV II

House. Mid/late C17 extended C19. Squared coursed lias with stone slate roof. Originally 2-unit plan, at right angles to road. 2 storeys with attic. Main front of 2 bays, one-window range with leaded casement to ground floor and 3-light stone mullion windows to first floor. Ashlar gable parapets and kneelers. One-unit, single-storey extension, is probably C19 and has C20 door. Rear elevation has a 3-light stone mullion windows, with transom, to ground and first floor left, and C20 roof dormer to attic. Lateral stack, to right of rear elevation, is partially rebuilt in brick. Gable, to right of main front has 2-light stone mullion window to attic. Walls attached to south, east and west are probably of late C17 origin, restored C19. 2-stage buttresses. Section of wall attached to east has truncated, gatepier with ball finial and encloses part of garden with walls at Manor Farmhouse and attached walls and gatepiers to east and west (q.v.). Interior not inspected but noted as having C17 panelling, hall fireplace with chamfered stone surround, parlour fireplace with 4-centred arch-head and moulded stone surround and first floor fireplace with bolection moulded wood surround. (VCH: Oxfordshire: Vol l0, p197-206; Wood-Jones R.B.: Traditional Domestic Architecture in the Banbury Region: p139-141)

Listing NGR: SP4421947391

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Legacy System number:: 402008
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1972), 197-206
Wood-Jones, R B, Traditional Domestic Architecture in the Banbury Region, (1963), 139-141

Legal

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