Pember Cottage

PEMBER COTTAGE, CHAPEL LANE

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Overview

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1283368
Date first listed:
12-Sept-1955
List Entry Name:
Pember Cottage
Statutory Address:
PEMBER COTTAGE, CHAPEL LANE

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Date:
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1283368
Date first listed:
12-Sept-1955
Date of most recent amendment:
30-Mar-1989
List Entry Name:
Pember Cottage
Statutory Address 1:
PEMBER COTTAGE, CHAPEL LANE

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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:
PEMBER COTTAGE, CHAPEL LANE

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

County:
Oxfordshire
District:
West Oxfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:
Langford
National Grid Reference:
SP2478002707

Details

LANGFORD CHAPEL LANE
SP2402-2502 (South side)
6/95 Pember Cottage
(Formerly listed as Grove
12.9.55 House)
GV II

Shown on O.S. map as Grove House.
Farmhouse, now house. Early C17 with later additions and alterations. Uncoursed
limestone rubble with alternating angle quoins, stone slate roof. L-plan with
entrance in angle to rear. 2 storeys and gable-lit attic. Two chamfered mullion
windows with dripstones on each floor, all 2-light except for one of 3 lights to
lower right. Small windows lighting staircase to right gable end, which has
integral end stack with dripstones and red brick top. Rear has 3-light mullion
window directly below eaves and one of 4 lights to ground floor of main range;
gabled dormer on same line in roof slope with 3-light late C20 metal casement.
Projecting gable has 2-light mullion window to first floor and one of 3 lights
to ground floor, both, like those of main range, with dripstones. Small infilled
window to attic. Integral end stack with dripstone and red brick shaft. Lean-to
porch with plank door in angle between ranges. Interior. Right ground-floor room
of house has chamfered spine beam and flat joists; inglenook fire-place with
chamfered wood lintel and bread oven. Stone winder staircase to front.
Stone-flag floor. Left room, divided in 2 by timber framed spine wall, has
corner fireplace to projecting gable. Wide floor boards on first floor and
chamfered spine beam to right room. Late C20 wooden winder staircase to attic
said to be replacing a wooden original. Staggered double-purlin roof with
central collar truss and principal rafters rising from wall tops.
[2390]


Listing NGR: SP2478002707

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
253846
Legacy System:
LBS

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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