St Frideswides Farmhouse
ST FRIDESWIDES FARMHOUSE, A 34
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1286525
- Date first listed:
- 26-Nov-1951
- List Entry Name:
- St Frideswides Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- ST FRIDESWIDES FARMHOUSE, A 34
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1286525
- Date first listed:
- 26-Nov-1951
- List Entry Name:
- St Frideswides Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- ST FRIDESWIDES FARMHOUSE, A 34
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:
- ST FRIDESWIDES FARMHOUSE, A 34
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- Cherwell (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Gosford and Water Eaton
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 50727 11266
Details
GOSFORD AND WATER EATON A43 SP51SW (East side) Cutteslowe 6/37 St. Frideswides Farmhouse 26/11/51 GV II* Farmhouse, now house. C16, possibly altered C17; extended C20. Limestone rubble with ashlar dressings; Stonesfield-slate roof with brick stacks. 3-unit through-passage plan with rear wing, extended. 2 storeys. Front has, to right of centre, a moulded stone doorway with a 4-centred arch within a rectangular surround; to right is a 5-light stone mullioned-and-transoaed window with label; to left a 5-light mullioned window with label, a blocked doorway with heavy wooden lintel, and a 3-light mullioned window with render label. At first floor are 4-light mullioned windows, to left and centre, plus a small window with label above the main door. Right end wall has a second 5-light mullioned-and-transomed window, and has a 4-light window above without its mullions. All have concave chamfers and leaded glazing, including some old diamond quarries. Hipped roof has stacks at the left end and to rear of the right unit rising from a large stone projection with sloping weatherings. Central hipped-roof rear wing, possibly originally containing the stair, has a 3-light ovolo-moulded wood-mullioned window, and is now flanked by a C20 wing and a C17/C18 lean-to extension returning from the right end. Interior: right end contains the through passage and a double-ovolo-moulded wooden doorway with carved vase stops. This leads to a fine room containing C17 oak panelling below a strapwork frieze, plus a large C16 stone 4-centre arched fireplace with recessed spandrels and moulded cornice below a contemporary carved wooden overmantel with 3 arched panels separated by caryatids. The room may originally have incorporated the through passage. The chamber above (now subdivided) has a plainer Tudor-arched fireplace with similar moulded cornice. Ground-floor rooms to left of the passage have lower ceilings with heavy chamfered beams. A heavy studded rear door is now internal. The moulded wooden doorway is similar to 2 at Water Eaton Manorhouse (q.v.) nearby. Occupied in late C16 by Lenthall family. (V.C.H.: Oxfordshire, Vol.12 (to be published)).
Listing NGR: SP5072711266
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 243274
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1990)
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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