Lower Grove Ash Farmhouse
LOWER GROVE ASH FARMHOUSE, B4031
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1286101
- Date first listed:
- 09-Oct-1979
- List Entry Name:
- Lower Grove Ash Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- LOWER GROVE ASH FARMHOUSE, B4031
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1286101
- Date first listed:
- 09-Oct-1979
- List Entry Name:
- Lower Grove Ash Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- LOWER GROVE ASH FARMHOUSE, B4031
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:
- LOWER GROVE ASH FARMHOUSE, B4031
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- West Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Sandford St. Martin
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 41228 30996
Details
SANDFORD ST.MARTIN B4031 SP43SW (South side) Grove Ash 3/117 Lower Grove Ash Farmhouse 09/10/79
GV II
Farmhouse. Mid C17, enlarged C18 and altered early C19. Coursed squared marlstone. Stonesfield-slate roofs with ashlar and brick stacks. 2-unit lobby-entry plan, extended to 4 units then to L plan. 2 storeys plus attic. The right half of the 4-window main range is earlier, and has a central doorway with 6-panel door. To right is a 3-light ovolo-moulded stone-mullioned window with label; a larger 3-light mullioned window to left, a 3-light lattice casement above, and a small single-light window over the door, all have labels and are probably early C19. Roof has a central stack and a gabled roof dormer to left. Added bays to left have further casements, one with a label. Lower service wing projects from left with a slated wooden verandah facing right. Short wing at rear of earlier bays has a further 3-light ovolo-moulded mullioned window in its outshut. Rear of later section has some segmental-arched openings with projecting keyblocks. Interior not inspected but noted as having stop-chamfered beams at first floor and in the later bays; attic stair over the lobby; chamfered and stopped doorframe leading to the rear wing; rear stair projection incorporated into slightly-later rear wing; 2 rows of butt purlins. (National Monuments Record; V.C.H.: Oxfordshire, Vol.XI. p.171).
Listing NGR: SP4122830996
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 251927
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1983), 171
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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