Wychwood Lodge

WYCHWOOD LODGE, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1283705
Date first listed:
12-Sept-1955
List Entry Name:
Wychwood Lodge
Statutory Address:
WYCHWOOD LODGE, HIGH STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1283705
Date first listed:
12-Sept-1955
List Entry Name:
Wychwood Lodge
Statutory Address 1:
WYCHWOOD LODGE, HIGH 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.

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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:
WYCHWOOD LODGE, HIGH STREET

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

County:
Oxfordshire
District:
West Oxfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:
Ramsden
National Grid Reference:
SP 35341 15388

Details

RAMSDEN HIGH STREET SP3515 (South-west side) 18/99 Wychwood Lodge 12/09/55

GV II*

Farmhouse, now house. Late C16 with early to mid-C17 addition; late C19 or early C20 restoration and additions. Coursed limestone rubble with ashlar dressings. Stone slate roof. Two-unit baffle-entry plan with projecting gabled cross-wing to left. One storey and attic. Dressed stone ridge stack off-centre to right with chamfered offset and 4 rendered square shafts with frieze and cornice and square dressed stone ridge stack to left-hand cross-wing with offset, frieze and cornice. Parapeted gables with copings and bulbous finials at apices; pair of gabled full dormers to right flanking central full-height gabled porch. 1:1:1:1 window front; 3-light recessed cavetto-moulded mullioned stone windows with returned hood moulds, 4-light ground-floor window to left. Ovolo-moulded Tudor-arched doorway in porch with returned hood mould and c.1900 panelled door. c.1900 addition set-back to left with gabled dormer and 2 stone stacks. Rear: pair of gabled dormers and central full-light gabled stair tower; 3-light recessed cavetto-moulded mullioned stone windows. Cross-wing projecting to right; 4-light cavetto-moulded mullioned stone windows, with dovecote flanking attic window in gable. Interior partially inspected: chamfered spine beams. Central ground-floor room with lozenge-pattern stone floor and shallow ovolo-moulded Tudor-arched open-stone fireplace. Right-hand ground-floor room has shallow cavetto-moulded Tudor-arched open stone fireplace and introduced oak panelling. Wave-moulded wooden architraves to doors with stops. Semi-circular oak winder stair to rear with circular newel post and splat balusters to attic landing.

Listing NGR: SP3528915409

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
252541
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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