Hordley House
HORDLEY HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1283262
- Date first listed:
- 27-Aug-1957
- List Entry Name:
- Hordley House
- Statutory Address:
- HORDLEY HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1283262
- Date first listed:
- 27-Aug-1957
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 29-Jun-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Hordley House
- Statutory Address 1:
- HORDLEY HOUSE
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:
- HORDLEY HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- West Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Wootton
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 44676 19200
Details
WOOTTON SP41NW 6/290 Hordley House 27/08/57 (Formerly listed as Hordley Farmhouse and Gazebo) GV II* House, now house and 3 flats. Mid/late C16; remodelled and range to left of courtyard built c.1600 for John Gregory (d.1613); rear range remodelled in 1730 (datestone) for John Gregory; alterations and front of c.1810 for Blenheim Estate. Coursed and uncoursed limestone rubble. Gabled stone slate roofs; late C19 brick ridge and end stacks to front range; range to left has early C17 stone end stack with diagonally-set brick flue, and massive lateral stone stack with range of 5 diamond-set flues. Courtyard plan. 2 storeys and attic; 6-window range front. Early C19 semi-circular arched doorway has 6-panelled door with Gothick fanlight. Flat stone arches over 4 early C19 eight-pane sashes, and timber lintels over C19 casements with iron opening lights. Mid/late C16 right range has chamfered round-headed light with sunk spandrels and 3-light chamfered wood-mullioned window, and a similar mid/late C16 two-light round-headed window in rear gable. Left range of c.1600 has 2 and 3-light ovolo-moulded wood-mullioned windows, gabled dormer and late C19 gable. Rear range has c.1730 flat stone arches, and pierced stone ventilators to former dairy outshut; C17 four-light ovolo-moulded wood-mullioned window in right gable. Rear wing with brick dressings built 1883. Facing courtyard are C17 ovolo-moulded wood-mullioned windows, some with leaded lights, to all ranges: early C19 panelled doors to front and rear ranges, former with blocked C16 gallery doorway over, and also a plank dairy door to rear wing. Interior: front range has early C17 panelling with reeded frieze and early C19 marble fireplace in room to right; stop-chamfered doorway to left; above are 2 similar panelled rooms, an early C17 arched fireplace and C17 panelling in gallery; stop-chamfered door frame to right wing, early C17 panelled door set in heavy chamfered frame and C17 panelled door to attic; 4-bay mid/late C16 roof of collar trusdses with clasped purlins and windbraced lower order of purlins clasped between principal rafter and jowled queen strut; later C16 two-bay butt-purlin roof to left of stack. Rear right wing has newel stairs, stop-chamfered beams and chamfered doorframes with C17 panelled door to attic. Early C17 rear left wing has stop-chamfered beams; stop-chamfered doorways to front and moulded arched doorway with carved spandrels and similar chamfered doorway to rear of newel stairs; first-floor room has rare set of C17 panelled linen cupboards, with decorative S-hinges and parts of 1758 inventory affixed to rear doors; C17 panelled door to rear room which has chamfered bressumer over fireplace; collar-truss roof with butt purlins. Rear range has stop-chamfered beams, moulded and arched stone fireplace, winder stairs and C17 plank door. (VCR: Oxfordshire: Vol XI, p266; Buildings of England: Oxfordshire: p860; National Monuments Record)
Listing NGR: SP4467619200
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 252945
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1983), 860
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 860
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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