Wheatsheaf Cottage
WHEATSHEAF COTTAGE, THORPE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1228616
- Date first listed:
- 26-Feb-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Wheatsheaf Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- WHEATSHEAF COTTAGE, THORPE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1228616
- Date first listed:
- 26-Feb-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Wheatsheaf Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- WHEATSHEAF COTTAGE, THORPE 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:
- WHEATSHEAF COTTAGE, THORPE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- Cherwell (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Wardington
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 49166 46359
Details
WARDINGTON THORPE ROAD SP4846 (East side) 15/177 Wheatsheaf Cottage
GV II
Public house now house. C17 with later alterations. Squared, coursed ironstone. Steeply pitched C20-tile roof with stone-coped gables and moulded kneelers. Renewed brick C20 stacks. 2-unit plan. 2 storeys plus attic. Situated gable on to road. 2-window elevation on side. Elevation facing Thorpe Road has 2 C20 ground floor windows. Blocked first floor window. Attic has 2-light casement window with wood lintel. Side elevation on right. Entrance off-centre to left. Panelled/glazed door with wood lintel. 4-light metal casement window in wood frame and wood lintel to right. First floor has a 2- and a 3-light metal casement in wood frames. Wood lintels. Small rectagular stone framed window on right. Ironstone quoins. Interior said to have inglenook fireplace, beams and original staircase. Once part of the Wheatsheaf Public House.
Listing NGR: SP4916946358
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 403275
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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