STABLE COURT, COTTAGE WORKSHOP AND DOVECOTE APPROXIMATELY 60 METRES SOUTH EAST OF GREAT TEW HOUSE TOGETHER WITH ATTACHED WALLS AND PIERS

STABLE COURT, COTTAGE WORKSHOP AND DOVECOTE APPROXIMATELY 60 METRES SOUTH EAST OF GREAT TEW HOUSE TOGETHER WITH ATTACHED WALLS AND PIERS, NEW ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1286293
Date first listed:: 27-Aug-1956
List Entry Name:: STABLE COURT, COTTAGE WORKSHOP AND DOVECOTE APPROXIMATELY 60 METRES SOUTH EAST OF GREAT TEW HOUSE TOGETHER WITH ATTACHED WALLS AND PIERS
Statutory Address:: STABLE COURT, COTTAGE WORKSHOP AND DOVECOTE APPROXIMATELY 60 METRES SOUTH EAST OF GREAT TEW HOUSE TOGETHER WITH ATTACHED WALLS AND PIERS, NEW ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1286293
Date first listed:: 27-Aug-1956
Date of most recent amendment:: 18-May-1987
List Entry Name:: STABLE COURT, COTTAGE WORKSHOP AND DOVECOTE APPROXIMATELY 60 METRES SOUTH EAST OF GREAT TEW HOUSE TOGETHER WITH ATTACHED WALLS AND PIERS
Statutory Address 1:: STABLE COURT, COTTAGE WORKSHOP AND DOVECOTE APPROXIMATELY 60 METRES SOUTH EAST OF GREAT TEW HOUSE TOGETHER WITH ATTACHED WALLS AND PIERS, NEW ROAD

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: STABLE COURT, COTTAGE WORKSHOP AND DOVECOTE APPROXIMATELY 60 METRES SOUTH EAST OF GREAT TEW HOUSE TOGETHER WITH ATTACHED WALLS AND PIERS, NEW ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Oxfordshire
District:: West Oxfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Great Tew
National Grid Reference:: SP 39809 29025

Details

GREAT TEW NEW ROAD SP3929 (East side) 10/37 Stable court, cottage, work- 27/08/56 shop and dovecote approx. 60m SE of Great Tew House together with attached walls and piers (Formerly listed as Great Tew Park together with dovecote, Stable quadrangle with gateway and garden walls) GV II

Stable court. c.1700, restored and extended early C19. Marlstone ashlar with some limestone dressings; Welsh-slate roofs. Court surrounds 3 sides of a quadrangle. 2 storeys Symmetrical south front, with plinth and limestone storey band, has in the central bay, which breaks forward slightly under a gable, a tall archway with double-stepped keyblock below a clock; to right and left are limestone-architraved doorways with double-stepped keyblocks linked to the storeyband, flanked by leaded stone mullioned-and-transomed windows; above each door is a 2-light mullioned window. Outer bays break forward under hipped roofs and contain similar doorways and windows. Roofs have a heavy wooden modillion cornice,m from left of south front a stone-coped wall with intermediate panelled piers projects forward and connects with gatepiers and gates approximately 80 metres south-east of Great Tew House (q.v.). From right of south front a similar wall projects forward to another pier, the pair of gatepier and wall approximately 83 metres south-east of Great Tew House (q.v.). South front returns on left to a gable and on right to an early/mid C19 cottage and parallel rear coach-house range. The cottage is of 2 storeys and has a 2-window range of stone mullion windows with hood moulds. Central doorway with four-centred arch and blind window above. Coach-house has a pair of axially placed arched double-doored entrances with keyblocks and imposts. Behind the coach-house is an early C19 laundry, now estate workshop, also with stone mullion windows. Linked to the left end of the south range is an octagonal 2-storey dovecote, in similar style, with narrow windows and an octagonal pyramid roof with one ogee-roofed glover and 2 roof dormers. Interior of dovecote not inspected but stables have C19 stalls and ceiling beams. Sane earlier roof timbers. Coach-house has a C19 first floor. (VCH: Oxfordshire: Vol VI: p227; Buildings of England: Oxfordshire: p627; C. Hussey, "Great Tew, Oxfordshire I"; Country Life, July 22, 1949)

Listing NGR: SP3980929025

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Legacy System number:: 251849
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974)
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1983), 227
'Country Life' in Country Life, (1949)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.