Billie's Cottage
BILLIE'S COTTAGE, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1284164
- Date first listed:
- 14-Oct-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Billie's Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- BILLIE'S COTTAGE, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1284164
- Date first listed:
- 14-Oct-1969
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 11-Dec-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Billie's Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- BILLIE'S COTTAGE, 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.
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:
- BILLIE'S COTTAGE, HIGH 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:
- Ashbury
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 26430 85041
Details
ASHBURY HIGH STREET SU28NE (South side) 5/26 Billie's Cottage 14/10/69 (Formerly listed as two cottages to West of Rose and Crown Inn)
GV II
Farmhouse, now house. C15 hall house with late C16, late C18 and C20 alterations. Originally timber-framed; in C18 house clad in squared and coursed chalk on sarsen base, some brick quoins; thatched roof; brick stacks. C15 L-plan ground-floor hall house. 1 1/2-storey, 3-window range. Timber lintels over C20 door and casements. Interior: Entry from present front door, door to kitchen/service in rear wing. In late C16 first floor inserted and north gable stack and axial stack backing onto passage to rear wing inserted. In late C18 house was converted into two cottages. Chamfered beams and joists in parlour (right of entry to south facing wing) and kitchen (in rear wing); ovolo moulded mantleshelf and oak gunrack over parlour fireplace. 3 1/2-and 3- bay wings of raised-cruck trusses with blades crossed at ridge and smoke- blackened rafters. Circular sarsen bread ovens attached to main fireplaces. lean-to shed of sarsen walling and with thatched roof projects from north gable wall.
Listing NGR: SU2643085041
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 250650
- 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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