Court Leet
COURT LEET, MAIN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1281798
- Date first listed:
- 08-Dec-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Court Leet
- Statutory Address:
- COURT LEET, MAIN STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1281798
- Date first listed:
- 08-Dec-1955
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 09-Nov-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Court Leet
- Statutory Address 1:
- COURT LEET, MAIN 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 LEET, MAIN STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- Cherwell (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Wigginton
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 39085 33201
Details
WIGGINTON MAIN STREET SP3833 (North side) 11/116 Court Leet 08/12/55 (Formerly listed as The Court) - II Four cottages, now one house. Datestone GW 1830. Regular coursed ironstone rubble. C20 tile roof. 2 stone ridge stacks. Two storeys plus attic; 4-window range. 4 entrances, one at either end and 2 central. All have chamfered jambs and hood moulds with label stops. Plank doors throughout. Two 3-light stone mullioned windows with hood moulds and label stops to left and right of central doors. Four 2-light similar windows to first floor. Central gabled bay has 2-light stone mullioned window with cusped heads and hood mould and label stops. Owner states that gables formerly had ball finials. Stone copings with kneelers. Latin inscription above central doorways: 'Unless the Lord is with us we build in vain'. History: The building called The Court may originally have been the church house which was later used for court leets. The rear part dates from the C17 but the main structure was rebuilt in the C19 as 4 tenements. The mason employed was Robert Cleaver. The cottages were converted into one house in 1963. C20 interior. (V.C.H. : Oxfordshire, Vol IX, p.161).
Listing NGR: SP3908533201
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 361478
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1969), 161
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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