Court Farmhouse Court Farmhouse Flat
COURT FARMHOUSE FLAT, NORTH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1266400
- Date first listed:
- 26-Nov-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Court Farmhouse Court Farmhouse Flat
- Statutory Address:
- COURT FARMHOUSE FLAT, NORTH STREET
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- 2001-06-29
- Reference:
- IOE01/04174/25
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1266400
- Date first listed:
- 26-Nov-1951
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 26-Feb-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Court Farmhouse Court Farmhouse Flat
- Statutory Address 1:
- COURT FARMHOUSE FLAT, NORTH STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- COURT FARMHOUSE, NORTH STREET
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:
- COURT FARMHOUSE FLAT, NORTH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- COURT FARMHOUSE, NORTH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- Cherwell (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Fritwell
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 52465 29432
Details
FRITWELL NORTH STREET SP52NW (South side) 3/39 Court Farmhouse and Court 26/11/51 Farmhouse Flat (Formerly listed as Court Farmhouse and farm building abutting house) GV II
Farmhouse. Early/mid C17, re-modelled and extended c.1800. Limestone rubble, partly squared and coursed, with ashlar dressings; Welsh-slate roof with brick stacks, T-plan. 2 storeys plus attic, and one storey plus attic. Road front has the end of the main range projecting on the left of the 2-window wing, both parts with shallow-pitched roofs and boxed eaves. The wing has 16-pane sashes and projecting keyblocks; the hipped-roofed projection has 2 similar but blind first-floor windows, plus a 2-light stone-mullioned window with label at ground floor, and its right return wall contains the entrance (now with the 6-panel double doors in a C20 porch) below a further sash window. The rear of the wing is in 2 sections, with renewed sashes plus a small apsidal C19 conservatory. The left side of the main range is in several builds with a central gable, and has 2 sashes plus some earlier windows. A lower range extending from the rear of the main range, now partly a flat, has 2 ovolo-moulded stone-mullioned windows with labels: one of 3 lights; the other of 2. Interior: Drawing room has heavy plaster cornices and an open fireplace with a massive chamfered cambered bressumer; 2-storey stair hall of c.1800 has a sweeping stair, 6-panel doors (one with an ornamental overlight) and has a round-headed display niche with serpentine shelves; another earlier alcove has a shell head, serpentine shelves and carved scroll brackets; C17 winder stairs rise to attics; rear wing has a heavy chamfered doorframe, a stop-chamfered bean, and a large open fireplace with stop-chamfered bressumer and bread oven. (VCH: Oxfordshire, Vol VI, p136)
Listing NGR: SP5246529432
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 421623
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1962), 136
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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