Gallup Poll Garfield
GALLUP POLL, 34, UPPER HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1285106
- Date first listed:
- 24-Apr-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Gallup Poll Garfield
- Statutory Address:
- GALLUP POLL, 34, UPPER HIGH STREET
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- 2007-09-09
- Reference:
- IOE01/16669/17
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1285106
- Date first listed:
- 24-Apr-1951
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 16-Jun-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Gallup Poll Garfield
- Statutory Address 1:
- GALLUP POLL, 34, UPPER HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- GARFIELD, 35, UPPER 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:
- GALLUP POLL, 34, UPPER HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- GARFIELD, 35, UPPER 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:
- Thame
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 70817 05726
Details
THAME UPPER HIGH STREET SP7005NE (South-west side) 10/171 Nos.34 (Gallup Poll) and 35 24/04/51 (Garfield) (Formerly listed as Nos.33, 34 and 35)
GV II*
House, now office and dwelling. Mid C16; cross-wing to right added early C17; wing to left added late C17. Roughcast, on brick with areas of timber framing; C20 brick to ground floor left; C19 close-studded timber framing with roughcast infill to first floor left of centre; old plain-tile roof; brick stacks. Originally 4-bay hall house with 2-bay cross-wing to left. 2-storey, 4-window range. 6-panel part-glazed door to right of centre with C20 segmental hood. 4-panel door to left of centre with probably mid C16 timber-framed gabled porch, having 4-centred archway with decorated spandrels and shaped bargeboards. Late C20 three-light wood mullion and transom window to left. 3-light wood mullion and transom window to centre. Two 2-light wood mullion and transom windows to right. 2-light wood mullion and transom windows to first floor, except 3-light wood mullion and transom window to left. Cross-gables to left and right. 3-light leaded casement to right cross-gable. Brick end stack to right, ridge stack to left of centre. Wing to left: C20 brick to ground floor; roughcast, probably on timber framing to first floor; old plain-tile roof; brick end stack to left. 2-storey, 2-window range. C20 three-light wood casement to right. Carriageway to left. Two C20 two-light wood. casements to jettied first floor. Interior: closed well staircase to left of centre. C19 straight-flight staircase to right of centre. Arch-braced collar-truss roofs with windbraces to mid C16 building. Double queen-post roof to early C17 cross-wing. Massive open fireplace to ground floor centre with wood Tudor-arched surround having quatrefoil carvings and elongated chamfered spandrels. Early C17 stone fireplace to ground floor of early C17 cross-wing to right, with C19 marble fireplace in front. Massive chamfered spine beams and joists to ground floor. Fragments of C17 wall painting to first floor left. Series of wall paintings from first floor chamber removed (1972) to the Woodstock Museum. (Wall Paintings from a House in Upper High Street, Thame by M.R. Airs and J.G. Rhodes in Oxoniensa, p.235 et seq.).
Listing NGR: SP7081705726
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 248604
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Oxoniensia in Oxoniensia, (), 235
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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