The Cottage
THE COTTAGE, ST PETERS COLLEGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1284549
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jun-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- THE COTTAGE, ST PETERS COLLEGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1284549
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jun-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE COTTAGE, ST PETERS COLLEGE
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:
- THE COTTAGE, ST PETERS COLLEGE
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:
- Radley
- National Grid Reference:
- SU5206999502
Details
RADLEY ST. PETER'S COLLEGE
SU5299
18/105 The Cottage
- II
House. Late C16: C18 and C19 alterations to front. Originally timber-framed.
Roughcast; gabled old tile roof; large rendered ridge stack finished in C19
diagonally-set brick flues; 2 similar flues to left end stack. 3-unit plan. 2
storeys and attic; 3-window range. Mid C18 six-panelled door and mid C19 sash
set in blocked C18 coach house entry to left: mid C19 half-glazed door flanked
by late C18 paired sashes and early Cl9 canted bay window with casements: first
floor has 2 late C18 sashes and one mid C19 sash. Late C16 four-light
wood-mullioned and transomed ovolo-moulded window in right gable wall. Rear:
stair-turret with 2-light wood-mullioned ovolo-moulded window; 3-light
wood-mullioned chamfered window above 3-light wood-mullioned and transomed
ovolo-moulded window with butterfly hinges to C19 opening light. Interior: C18
six-panelled doors. Stop-chamfered wood bressumer and stone jambs to large open
fireplace. Timber-studded partitions to rear and stair-turret: wide newel
stairs. First floor has moulded stone fireplace and exposed timber framing:
5-bay collar-truss roof with butt purlins and windbraces. The bressumer of the
ground-floor fireplace is inscribed with graffiti initials J.S. which probably
stands for John Stonhouse whose family owned Radley Park in the late C16.
(V.C.H.: Berkshire, Vol.IV, p.410).
Listing NGR: SU5206999502
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 249781
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Ditchfield, P H, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Berkshire, (1924), 410
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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