College Farmhouse
COLLEGE FARMHOUSE, THE TOWN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1249042
- Date first listed:
- 08-Dec-1955
- List Entry Name:
- College Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- COLLEGE FARMHOUSE, THE TOWN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1249042
- Date first listed:
- 08-Dec-1955
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 14-Nov-1985
- List Entry Name:
- College Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- COLLEGE FARMHOUSE, THE TOWN
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:
- COLLEGE FARMHOUSE, THE TOWN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- Cherwell (District Authority)
- Parish:
- South Newington
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 40773 33307
Details
SOUTH NEWINGTON THE TOWN SP4033 (North side) 11/272 College Farmhouse 08/12/55
GV II
Shown on O.S. map as Cottage Farm. Farmhouse now house. Datestone 1659/BB/D/P/B. Extended C18. Regular coursed ironstone rubble. Steeply pitched stone slate roof laid to diminishing courses. Stone stacks to ends and ridge. Stone copings. Moulded stone coping to plinth. Elevation to road: 2-unit plan, 2 storeys plus attic; 2-window range. Front to left. C20 door off-centre to right has chamfered stone jambs and head to doorway. 4-light stone mullion with hood mould, label stops to left and a similar 3-light window to right. Two 3-light similar windows to first floor. Attic has a 2-light stone mullioned window with hood mould and label stops. Single storey extension to right has a 2-light stone mullion. Left end: 2-light flat faced stone mullion to cellar. 3- and 4-light stone mullioned windows to ground floor have hood moulds and label stops. Two similar 3-light windows to first floor. 2 gabled roof dormers. Windows have lead cames C20 and original wrought iron window catches. Renewed stone to some windows. Interior: Stop chamfered beams and chamfered joists. Inglenook fireplace with chamfered bressumer. Wooden spiral stair. Stone flag floors. Elm panelling and shutters to windows. Original plan of kitchen, hall and parlour survives. Noted as a rare example of the 3-unit developing into an L-shaped plan. (Wood-Jones, R.B., Traditional Domestic Architecture in the Banbury Region, 1963, pp.136-7).
Listing NGR: SP4077333307
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 430885
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Wood-Jones, R B, Traditional Domestic Architecture in the Banbury Region, (1963), 136-7
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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