WARDINGTON GRANGE AND ATTACHED SERVICE/BARN RANGE

WARDINGTON GRANGE AND ATTACHED SERVICE/BARN RANGE, B4036

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1261783
Date first listed:: 11-Apr-1990
List Entry Name:: WARDINGTON GRANGE AND ATTACHED SERVICE/BARN RANGE
Statutory Address:: WARDINGTON GRANGE AND ATTACHED SERVICE/BARN RANGE, B4036

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1261783
Date first listed:: 11-Apr-1990
List Entry Name:: WARDINGTON GRANGE AND ATTACHED SERVICE/BARN RANGE
Statutory Address 1:: WARDINGTON GRANGE AND ATTACHED SERVICE/BARN RANGE, B4036

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: WARDINGTON GRANGE AND ATTACHED SERVICE/BARN RANGE, B4036

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

County:: Oxfordshire
District:: Cherwell (District Authority)
Parish:: Wardington
National Grid Reference:: SP 48294 46085

Details

The following buildings shall be included:

SP 480 460 WARDINGTON B4036 (north-west side, off) 15/205 Wardington Grange and attached service/barn range

II

Farmhouse and attached service/barn range. Probably mid C18, with service/barn range added early C19; C19 alterations. Coursed squared ironstone with quoins; Welsh slate roofs; stone and brick stacks. House of 2 storeys with cellar, 3 bays, with central staircase plan. Attached to right is lower 2-storey service/ barn range, having single-unit service section and 3-bay barn. South (yard) elevation: house: overgrown with ivy; central shallow pointed-arched doorway with raised keystone, nail-studded board door with cover strips; and iron brackets from former hood; flanking entrance are 4-light cellar windows, having chamfered stone mullions and hoodmoulds; other windows wood-framed with metal casements and leaded lights, of 3 lights apart from 2-light window over door, and having flat arches with raised keystones; stone coping; end stacks, that to left of stone with paired shafts and moulded cornices, that to right rebuilt in brick. Service/barn range: a 3-light lst-floor window to service section; to barn, a central cart-entry with replacement board doors, and door on right. Rear: house has windows as before, of 4-lights to ground floor, 2 lights above. Service/barn range is set back, and re-entrant of house has board door. Service section has board door on left; 3- light window on right; 2-light window with horizontal glazing bars over door; brick eaves stack. Barn has central cart-entry with replacement board double door, and loft opening on left. Right return (barn): bird-hole in gable. Interior of house not inspected; barn has red brick lining, the brick partition wall with service section in English garden wall bond; lamp recesses flank cart- entries; bird nesting box to right gable; collared, bolted, queen-post roof trusses with trenched purlins.

Charles I is reputed to have watched the battle of Cropredy Bridge from under an oak tree at Wardington Grange.

Listing NGR: SP4829446085

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 436636
Legacy System:: LBS

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Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.