Pithouse Cottages
PITHOUSE COTTAGES, 3
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1261782
- Date first listed:
- 30-Mar-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Pithouse Cottages
- Statutory Address:
- PITHOUSE COTTAGES, 3
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1261782
- Date first listed:
- 30-Mar-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Pithouse Cottages
- Statutory Address 1:
- PITHOUSE COTTAGES, 3
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:
- PITHOUSE COTTAGES, 3
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- South Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Mapledurham
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 68720 77410
Details
The following Building shall be added:-
MAPLEDURHAM
SU 67 NE _ 9/10000 No 3 (Pithouse Cottages)
GV II
Former open-hall cruck - framed house. Dated to 1454/5, ceiled C17 and later alterations C19 and C20. Timber frame with wattle and daub infill; brick additions. Deep tiled roof, hipped to west end, gabled to east, with 2 brick chimney stacks and gabled dormers, 1 to north, 2 to south. 1½ storeys. South front, 3 windows at ground floor and 3 doorways. Mostly 2 light 4-pane casements. Interior reveals 3 full cruck trusses (eastern truss removed mid C20) forming a 3-bay house with 2 bay hall serving as both hall and service and having a mantle beam open truss, on the lower side of which the position of the smoke louvre is visible; C17 chimney stack inserted at the chamber end to serve both areas. Most of the original roof with curved windbraces, remains under the later tiled one. At the upper end of the hall a blocked window the diagonally set mullions survives half above and half below an inserted C17 floor of wide boards and chamfered and stopped spine beam.
Listing NGR: SU6872077410
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 361496
- 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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