NUMBERS 1 TO 8 STILES COURT

NUMBERS 1 TO 8 STILES COURT, NEWBURY STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1283702
Date first listed:: 22-Apr-1950
List Entry Name:: NUMBERS 1 TO 8 STILES COURT
Statutory Address:: NUMBERS 1 TO 8 STILES COURT, NEWBURY STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1283702
Date first listed:: 22-Apr-1950
Date of most recent amendment:: 06-Dec-1985
List Entry Name:: NUMBERS 1 TO 8 STILES COURT
Statutory Address 1:: NUMBERS 1 TO 8 STILES COURT, NEWBURY STREET

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: NUMBERS 1 TO 8 STILES COURT, NEWBURY STREET

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

County:: Oxfordshire
District:: Vale of White Horse (District Authority)
Parish:: Wantage
National Grid Reference:: SU 39843 87606

Details

WANTAGE NEWBURY STREET SU3987 (West side) 7/146 Nos. 1 to 8 (consecutive), 22/04/50 Stiles Court (Formerly listed as Style's Almshouses Nos. 1 to 12 (consecutive))

GV II

Almshouses. Built 1680 for Robert Stile. Flemish bond brick with flared headers; C20 tile roof; brick stacks. Courtyard plan. One storey and attic; 5-bay range. Central projecting bay has semi-circular arch with decorative keystone over C20 door; segmental pedimented datestone reads "The Gift of/ Mr Robert Stile/ of Amsterdam/ Merchant who/ died October/ Y 3rd Anno Domini/ 1680". Gauged brick flat arches over 2-light leaded casements with shutters. Chamfered plinth; gauged brick moulded cornice; C20 hipped dormers. Hipped roof. Ridge stacks. 3-window range left side wall has gauged brick flat arches over C20 casements. Similar detailing to 5-window range rear wall, with moulded wood architrave to central doorway. Interior not inspected. Buildings of England: Berkshire, p.255; VCH: Berkshire, Vol.IV, p.320.

Listing NGR: SU3984387606

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Legacy System number:: 251245
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Ditchfield, P H, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Berkshire, (1924), 320
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Berkshire, (1966), 255

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.