Langston Priory
LANGSTON PRIORY, B4450
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1283869
- Date first listed:
- 15-May-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Langston Priory
- Statutory Address:
- LANGSTON PRIORY, B4450
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1283869
- Date first listed:
- 15-May-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Langston Priory
- Statutory Address 1:
- LANGSTON PRIORY, B4450
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:
- LANGSTON PRIORY, B4450
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- West Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Churchill
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 25742 22688
Details
CHURCHILL B4450 SP22SE (North side) 7/46 Langston Priory (former Langston Arms Hotel)
- II
Shown on O.S. map as Hotel. Hotel, now residential home for the elderly. Circa 1870 by George Devey for the Third Earl of Ducie with later alterations. Rock-faced regularly coursed and dressed limestone rubble with roughcast light timber frame to gables and jettied first floor of main range; artificial stone slate roof to front, original stone slates to rear and to low right wing. Complex plan in free Tudor style. 2 storeys and attic. Main range has projecting gabled wing to left with jettied attic supported on coving. C20 casement to attic. 2-light flat-faced mullion window to first floor and 3-light flat-faced mullioned and transomed window to ground floor. Similar mullioned and transomed windows to main range to left and right of 2-storey projecting gabled porch. Wide segmental-headed arch has panelled doors with fleur-delays pointed strap hinges leading to lobby with half-glazed ledged doors. 2-light flat-faced mullion windows lighting cellar to left and right of entrance. First floor of porch has quoin strips and Venetian window with original glazing removed. 3-light casements with original glazing removed to left and right. Possibly slightly later single-storey range attached to right has projecting gabled bay to right with coving like that on gabled wing to main range and 5-light mullioned and transomed window (centre lower light round-headed). Three 2-light flat-faced mullion windows to left, one to left and 2 to right of ramped buttress. A prominent feature of the building are the ridge, lateral and end stacks, all with red brick detached diagonal shafts in groups of 2 or 3, several rebuilt in original style in late C20. One of rear ranges has semi-circular bread oven projection with stone slate roof. Interior. Much altered in C20 but retains original dog-leg staircase with turned balusters. Situated by a principal railway junction, the hotel served as the headquarters of the local hunt. It had stabling for 23 hunters and guests of the Earl of Ducie and other visitors from London would bring their horses by train for a weekend's hunting. (Buildings of England: Oxfordshire: p674; Local information) [2488]
Listing NGR: SP2574222688
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 253948
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 674
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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