College Farmhouse
COLLEGE FARMHOUSE, MARKET SQAURE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1266281
- Date first listed:
- 26-Nov-1951
- List Entry Name:
- College Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- COLLEGE FARMHOUSE, MARKET SQAURE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1266281
- Date first listed:
- 26-Nov-1951
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 26-Feb-1988
- List Entry Name:
- College Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- COLLEGE FARMHOUSE, MARKET SQAURE
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, MARKET SQAURE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- Cherwell (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Lower Heyford
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 48637 24757
Details
LOWER HEYFORD MARKET SQUARE SP4824 (South side) 10/67 College Farmhouse 26/11/51 (Formerly listed as Knapton's Farmhouse) GV II
Farmhouse now house. Late C17/early C18, extended C19 and altered C20. Coursed limestone and marlstone rubble with wooden lintels and some ashlar dressings; concrete plain-tile roof with brick stacks. 3-unit through-passage plan with rear service wing. 2 storeys. Regular 4-window front has 3-light casements except to bay 3 where there is a 2-light window above the entrance; the upper windows retain wooden lintels and C18/early-C19 iron casements, but the lower windows have newer casements with concrete lintels. The roof has gable stacks plus a ridge stack to right of centre. Right gable wall has large ashlar quoins and returns to a short rear wing which continues as a lower service range. Rear has a C19 stair wing in the angle of the ranges, and the lower range retains a small 2-light wood-mullioned window. Interior: Large inglenook fireplace backing onto through passage; some chamfered beams. (VCH: Oxfordshire, Vol VI, p183)
Listing NGR: SP4863724757
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 422075
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1962), 183
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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