Ellwood House
ELLWOOD HOUSE, CHINNOR ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1285349
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jul-1963
- List Entry Name:
- Ellwood House
- Statutory Address:
- ELLWOOD HOUSE, CHINNOR ROAD
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- Reference:
- IOE01/09324/14
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1285349
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jul-1963
- List Entry Name:
- Ellwood House
- Statutory Address 1:
- ELLWOOD HOUSE, CHINNOR ROAD
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:
- ELLWOOD HOUSE, CHINNOR ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- South Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Crowell
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 74426 99790
Details
CROWELL CHINNOR ROAD SU7499 (North side) 20/73 Ellwood House 18/07/63
GV II
Farmhouse. Mid C16 with later alterations. Red brick with some random flared headers; old plain-tile roof, gableted to left; brick lateral stacks to rear. 2-storey, 6-window range. Plank doors with glazed tops to left and right of centre. 3-light painted stone ovolo-moulded mullion window with hood mould to right. 2-light painted stone ovolo-moulded mullion windows to left and right of centre. 4-light wood mullion and transom window to centre. Two 2-light casements with top-lights and segmental brick heads to left. 2-light casement with top-light to first floor left. 4-light wood mullion and transom window to first floor centre. 2-light painted stone ovolo-moulded mullion window to right of centre. 3-light painted stone ovolo-moulded mullion window to right. Right return: 2-storey angled bay of brick with some random uncoursed stone rubble to ground floor; plain-tile hipped roof. C20 French window with side-lights to ground floor. Round window to each side of bay to first floor. Rear: catslide roof, with cross-gable to right of roughcast timber framing. To left and right of centre are lateral stacks with 3 diagonally-set flues. Interior not inspected but reputed to have richly moulded ceiling beams. History: Thomas Ellwood, Quaker and friend of John Milton was born here in 1639. (V.C.H.: Oxfordshire, Vol.8, 1964, p.82).
Listing NGR: SU7442699790
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 249087
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1964), 82
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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