The Lamb Hotel and Attached Mounting Block
THE LAMB HOTEL AND ATTACHED MOUNTING BLOCK, SHEEP STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1266455
- Date first listed:
- 12-Sept-1955
- List Entry Name:
- The Lamb Hotel and Attached Mounting Block
- Statutory Address:
- THE LAMB HOTEL AND ATTACHED MOUNTING BLOCK, SHEEP STREET
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- Date:
- 2001-06-30
- Reference:
- IOE01/03716/28
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1266455
- Date first listed:
- 12-Sept-1955
- List Entry Name:
- The Lamb Hotel and Attached Mounting Block
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE LAMB HOTEL AND ATTACHED MOUNTING BLOCK, SHEEP 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:
- THE LAMB HOTEL AND ATTACHED MOUNTING BLOCK, SHEEP STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- West Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Burford
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 24957 12238
Details
BURFORD AND UPTON SHEEP STREET AND SIGNET (North side) SP2412-2512 The Lamb Hotel and 5/197 attached mounting 12.9.55 block.
GV II
House, now hotel. C18 front incorporating C16 features. Coursed rubble, Cotswold stone roof. Ashlar gable-end chimneys and front wall chimney. 2 storeys; 5:1 bays, 2- and 3-light casements of the mid-late C19. 2 doorways with heavy lintels, plank doors; blocked wooden lintel doorway to west return. Low single-storey-and-attic wing returns to Priory Lane, 4 Cotswold attic gables and a C20 Cotswold-style gable; mullion windows, some restored, gable end to North with large square ashlar stacks with joint cornices. The best feature is a 4-light window with cusp head lancets with a stilted label at right-hand end; 3 large garage entries to left; mounting block next southern one. Interior: Tudor arch fireplace to west room, moulded beams; rear corridor to North flank.
Listing NGR: SP2495712238
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 421560
- 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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