High Street House
High Street House, 7, High Street
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1285084
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jul-1963
- List Entry Name:
- High Street House
- Statutory Address:
- High Street House, 7, High Street
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1285084
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jul-1963
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 11-Dec-1985
- List Entry Name:
- High Street House
- Statutory Address 1:
- High Street House, 7, 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:
- High Street House, 7, High Street
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- South Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Watlington
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 68923 94507
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 31 August 2021 to correct grade and to reformat the text to current standards
SU6894
6/188
WATLINGTON
HIGH STREET (south side)
No.7 (High Street House)
(Formerly listed as High Street House)
18/07/63
GV
II*
Town house. c.1720-30. Grey brick with red brick dressings; ground floor rebuilt in late C19 brick; roof not visible; moulded brick rear lateral and end stacks. Double-depth plan. Early Georgian style.
Three storeys. Five window range. Fine doorcase with fluted pilasters, pulvinated frieze and segmental pediment: five-panelled door. Bold coving over ground-floor sashes with late C19 red brick aprons. Gauged brick segmental arches over other C18 sashes. Red brick moulded string courses; gauged red brick pilasters to sides have moulded entablatures meeting cornices beneath parapet. Early C18 two-storey rear wing of chequer brick with raised storey band, gabled old tile roof, and canted bay with sashes to rear: adjoins stair turret to left and similar wing to right which has four-panelled door with overlight and mid C18 wing (with mid C19 sashes) to rear.
Interior: C18 and C19 panelled doors. Ground-floor has chamfered and ogee-stopped beams, and early C18 fireplace to left; mid C18 panelled room to rear left; hall to rear right has early and mid C18 panelling, and dog-leg with landing staircase with barley-sugar balusters on closed string; panelled dado. First floor has bolection-panelled room to right and straight-cut panelled room with bolection-moulded overmantle to left. Second floor has panelled landing and mid C18 panelled rooms with stone fireplaces to left and right.
(Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, p.830).
Listing NGR: SU6892394507
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 247660
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 830
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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