The Old House
THE OLD HOUSE, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1277711
- Date first listed:
- 14-Nov-1985
- List Entry Name:
- The Old House
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD HOUSE, HIGH STREET
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- Date:
- 2005-09-08
- Reference:
- IOE01/14859/06
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1277711
- Date first listed:
- 14-Nov-1985
- List Entry Name:
- The Old House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD HOUSE, 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:
- THE OLD HOUSE, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- Cherwell (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Milton
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 45091 35072
Details
MILTON HIGH STREET SP4435 (South side) 10/8 The Old House
GV II
Shown on O.S. map as Old Barn House. Large house. C17 remodelled C20. Regular coursed ironstone rubble steeply pitched C20 tile roof. Brick stacks to right and ridge, 2 on stone bases. L-plan. Single storey plus attic. 4-window range. Gabled wing to left has C20 metal casements to ground floor and attic. Right part: Two doors. A small stone pointed arched window between. Rectangular staircase projection to right. Two C20 windows to right. A small rectangular window to far right. Attic has 2 wooden mullioned windows with lead cames to left and 2 similar C20 windows to right. Tiled circular bread oven projection to right end. Rear has casement inserted in stone surrounds and wood mullioned windows. Interior: Stop chamfered beams. Chamfered bressumer to inglenook fireplace. Wooden spiral stair (elm treads replaced) Original plan of hall, parlour and through passage to kitchen is still discernible. (Wood-Jones, R.B., Traditional Domestic Architecture in the Banbury Region, 1963, pp.93-98, 212-213; V.C.H.: Oxfordshire, Vol.IX, p.13).
Listing NGR: SP4509135072
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 430662
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1969), 13
Wood-Jones, R B, Traditional Domestic Architecture in the Banbury Region, (1963), 93-98
Wood-Jones, R B, Traditional Domestic Architecture in the Banbury Region, (1963), 212-213
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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