Court Farmhouse

COURT FARMHOUSE, MEDCROFT ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1281611
Date first listed:
27-Aug-1957
List Entry Name:
Court Farmhouse
Statutory Address:
COURT FARMHOUSE, MEDCROFT ROAD
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1281611
Date first listed:
27-Aug-1957
Date of most recent amendment:
27-Jul-1988
List Entry Name:
Court Farmhouse
Statutory Address 1:
COURT FARMHOUSE, MEDCROFT ROAD

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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.

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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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
COURT FARMHOUSE, MEDCROFT ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Oxfordshire
District:
West Oxfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:
Tackley
National Grid Reference:
SP 47892 20428

Details

TACKLEY MEDCROFT ROAD SP4720 (South-east side) 5/240 Court Farmhouse 27/08/57 (Formerly listed as Gateway to the old Manor House) GV II Farmhouse, now house. Early/mid C17; altered mid/late C20. Limestone rubble. Stone slate double-span roof; external and 2 ridge stacks have large ashlar shafts with moulded cornices. Double-depth plan. 3 storeys; 4-window range. Main front to garden is irregular. Third bay has a 2-storey porch with Tudor-arched doorway and moulded spandrels in chamfered surround; C20 double-leaf 6-panelled doors. Moulded string course. First floor has partly-renewed 2-light window; recessed ovolo-moulded mullioned windows throughout. Panel immediately below it has triangular-headed inner panel with incised and moulded frame. Coped gable parapet has kneelers with obelisk finials. Second bay has large 2-storey, 4-light canted bay window. Other windows are of 3 lights, with hood moulds to ground and first floors. Rear, now entrance front, is a 3-window range. Mid/late C20 porch with Tudor-arched double-leaf doors. Ground floor has some 4-light windows, and 2 irregular relieving arches. Other windows of 3 lights are almost wholly renewed. Single-storey ranges at right angles are largely C20. Interior not inspected. (Buildings of England: Oxfordshire: p803)

Listing NGR: SP4789220428

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
253052
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 803

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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