Old House

OLD HOUSE, 72, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1244290
Date first listed:
21-Nov-1995
List Entry Name:
Old House
Statutory Address:
OLD HOUSE, 72, HIGH STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1244290
Date first listed:
21-Nov-1995
List Entry Name:
Old House
Statutory Address 1:
OLD HOUSE, 72, HIGH STREET

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
OLD HOUSE, 72, HIGH STREET

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

County:
Oxfordshire
District:
Vale of White Horse (District Authority)
Parish:
Sutton Courtenay
National Grid Reference:
SU 49986 93520

Details

SU 1993 SUTTON COURTENAY HIGH STREET
(West side)
1710-0/8/10003
No.72
Old House

GV II


House. Circa C17; remodelled and extended circa early C19. Timber-framed with red brick nogging, partly rendered and faced in red brick; stone rubble plinth. Slate hipped roof with deep bracketed eaves; north wing has clay plain tile roof with gabled end. Red brick lateral, axial and gable-end stacks. PLAN: L-shaped on plan, the eaves of the main range to south and east were raised in the early C19 when the house was remodelled and extended to the west. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attic and single storey and attic north wing. Asymmetrical north front with exposed timber-framing on ground floor, large red brick lateral stack on left and brick-faced wing on right with exposed timber-framing in gable end; central 3-centred arch doorway with half-glazed door with Gothick glazing bars and C20 open porch; C20 casements with leaded panes. South, garden, front asymmetrical 6-window range with various C20 casements and 3-centred arch half-glazed door; timber-framing exposed on south front and on east end wall. INTERIOR: Moulded ceiling beams in the south and east range; chamfered ceiling beams and joists in north wing. Circa early C19 joinery including panelled doors, chimneypieces and cupboards. SOURCE: Rosier, C. County Archaeological Services report, August 1992.



Listing NGR: SU4998693520

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Legacy System number:
449224
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

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Rosier, C, County Archaeological Services Report in August, (1992)

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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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