GAS HOUSE APPROXIMATELY 100 METRES NORTH PF DITCHLEY HOUSE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1251513
Date first listed:: 30-Aug-1988
List Entry Name:: GAS HOUSE APPROXIMATELY 100 METRES NORTH PF DITCHLEY HOUSE
Statutory Address:: GAS HOUSE APPROXIMATELY 100 METRES NORTH PF DITCHLEY HOUSE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1251513
Date first listed:: 30-Aug-1988
List Entry Name:: GAS HOUSE APPROXIMATELY 100 METRES NORTH PF DITCHLEY HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: GAS HOUSE APPROXIMATELY 100 METRES NORTH PF DITCHLEY HOUSE

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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:: GAS HOUSE APPROXIMATELY 100 METRES NORTH PF DITCHLEY HOUSE

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

County:: Oxfordshire
District:: West Oxfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Spelsbury
National Grid Reference:: SP 39019 21304

Details

SPELSBURY DITCHLEY PARK SP3821-3921 18/171 Gas House approx. 100m N of Ditchley House

GV II

Gas house, now electricity substation; probably formerly a menagerie. Circa 1745, probably altered C19. Limestone ashlar; Welsh-slate roof. Octagonal plan. Single-storey building, designed as a garden feature, has 4 stone doorways with moulded architraves and entablatures with pulvinated friezes; alternate sides have small arched windows. Shallow-pitched roof rises from a moulded stone cornice and has a wooden louvred lantern. Interior not inspected. (Ditchley Park is included in the English Heritage Historic Gardens Register at Grade II*)

Listing NGR: SP3901921304

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Legacy System number:: 434125
Legacy System:: LBS

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Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 34 Oxfordshire

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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.