Glenthorne House
GLENTHORNE HOUSE, 174, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1266657
- Date first listed:
- 12-Sept-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Glenthorne House
- Statutory Address:
- GLENTHORNE HOUSE, 174, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1266657
- Date first listed:
- 12-Sept-1955
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 01-Mar-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Glenthorne House
- Statutory Address 1:
- GLENTHORNE HOUSE, 174, HIGH 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:
- GLENTHORNE HOUSE, 174, HIGH 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 25076 11996
Details
BURFORD AND UPTON HIGH STREET AND SIGNET (West side) SP2411-2511; SP2512(Enlargement) No 174 (Glenthorne 6/164; 7/164 House) (previously 12.9.55 listed as Glenthorne)
GV II
House. C14 remodelled C17 with perhaps mid-C19 front in C18 style (attributed to Christopher Kempster). Freestone front with plain ashlar raised quoins, otherwise rubble, Cotswold stone roofs, ashlar end chimneys. Front: 2 storeys with parapet, stands on plinth. 3 bays, with parapet, stands on plinth. 3 bays, outer paired, glazing-bar sashes in raised flat surrounds with cock-beads and keystones, simple offset courses as cornice. Central 4-panel door with stone brackets to flat hood. Gabled stair-turret adjacent to south gable return and lower 1- and 2- storey mullion windowed extensions. Internal evidence of former double gabled frontage. Interior: late C14 small pointed doorway axial with entrance, wave moulding; late mediaeval fireplace with moulded corbels to simple hood; bressumer on North side moulded and has traces of painted decoration; double-chamfered floor joists; newel stair in turret; remains of Jacobean panelling on 1st floor landing. The Kempster attribution is unlikely. As late as 1761 still an Inn (The Star Inn); cobbles found below right-hand bay suggest a coach- entry there (ex.inf R Moody).
Listing NGR: SP2507611996
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 420885
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Moody, R, M, , The Story of Burford, (1983)
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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