Middleton Park Service Wing and Southern Pair of Forecourt Lodges
MIDDLETON PARK SERVICE WING AND SOUTHERN PAIR OF FORECOURT LODGES
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1232953
- Date first listed:
- 26-Nov-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Middleton Park Service Wing and Southern Pair of Forecourt Lodges
- Statutory Address:
- MIDDLETON PARK SERVICE WING AND SOUTHERN PAIR OF FORECOURT LODGES
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1232953
- Date first listed:
- 26-Nov-1951
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 09-Dec-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Middleton Park Service Wing and Southern Pair of Forecourt Lodges
- Statutory Address 1:
- MIDDLETON PARK SERVICE WING AND SOUTHERN PAIR OF FORECOURT LODGES
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:
- MIDDLETON PARK SERVICE WING AND SOUTHERN PAIR OF FORECOURT LODGES
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- Cherwell (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Middleton Stoney
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 52527 23242
Details
SP52SW MIDDLETON STONEY
5/116 Middleton Park: service wing 26/11/51 and southern pair of forecourt lodges (Formerly listed as Middleton Park)
GV II*
Subsidiary parts of country house, now subdivided into dwellings. 1938 by Sir Edwin Lutyens and Robert Lutyens for the 9th Earl of Jersey. Coursed squared limestone with ashlar dressings; plain-tile roof with rubble stacks. Single-storey service range is concealed from the forecourt by a solid wall pierced only by 3 gateways with rusticated doorcases and fine turned wooden grilles; garden side has a re-used wall from the demolished C18 mansion with an Ionic colonade and niches plus shuttered sashes matching those on the main house (q. v.) ; sashes in colonade are late C20 insertions. Linked pyramid-roofed lodges, of 2 storeys plus attics, have 2-window arrangements of 2-light shuttered casements. and have hipped roof dormers plus an apex stack. The lodge flanking the forecourt entrance has a pedimented rusticated doorway and is linked, by a short section of wall containing a further doorway, to one of the entrance piers bearing a stone eagle by Sir W. Reid Dick. Interiors not inspected. (A.S.G. Butler, The Architecture of Sir Edwin Lutyens, Vol.I, 1951; Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, pp.703-4; Country Life, July 5th and 12th 1946, pp.28-31 and 74-77).
Listing NGR: SP5252723242
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 408334
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 703-4
Country Life in Country Life, Vol. 1, (1950)
Country Life in 12 July, (1946), 74-77
Country Life in 5 July, (1946), 28-31
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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