Chartersfield Hall (Shown on OS Maps As Wyfold Cottage)
CHARTERSFIELD HALL (SHOWN ON OS MAPS AS WYFOLD COTTAGE)
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1249972
- Date first listed:
- 19-Nov-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Chartersfield Hall (Shown on OS Maps As Wyfold Cottage)
- Statutory Address:
- CHARTERSFIELD HALL (SHOWN ON OS MAPS AS WYFOLD COTTAGE)
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1249972
- Date first listed:
- 19-Nov-1993
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 14-Feb-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Chartersfield Hall (Shown on OS Maps As Wyfold Cottage)
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHARTERSFIELD HALL (SHOWN ON OS MAPS AS WYFOLD COTTAGE)
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:
- CHARTERSFIELD HALL (SHOWN ON OS MAPS AS WYFOLD COTTAGE)
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- South Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Checkendon
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 68224 81926
Details
In the entry for:-
SU68SE CHECKENDON -
5/10010 Chatersfield Hall
- II
the entry shall be amended to read:-
SU68SE CHECKENDON Approx 500m SW of former Borocourt Hospital
5/10010 Chatersfield Hall (Shown on OS maps as Wyfold Cottage)
- II
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SU68SE CHECKENDON -
5/10010 Chatersfield Hall
- II
Probably estate bailiffs house. Probably 1872-8 by George Somers Clarke, the elder, for Edward Hermon, a cotton manufacturer. English-bond red brick with blue brick diapering, stone dressings and some timber-framing. Plain tile roof with stone coping to gable ends and crested ridge-tiles. Brick lateral and axial stacks with tall shafts with corbelled brick caps and strings. An asymmetrical composition in a robust Tudor-Gothic style. Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical elevations. Entrance front has large projecting lateral stack on right with brick diaperwork, small fire-windows, set-offs, the upper one with stone weathering incorporating a gablet containing an armorial device; lean-to porch in angle on left with wooden arcaded front on low wall. The left return has two staggered gables, the left projects, the right with open bracing, timber-framed and jettied and with what looks like an oven projection below. The right hand return also has braced and timber-framed gable jettied out over stone bay window on ground floor; on right the ground floor projects with lean-to roof. Small single-storey service wing at rear. Interior not recorded but room to right of main entrance has wide fireplace with low moulded segmental arch and two fire-windows.
Listing NGR: SU6822481926
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 432186
- 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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