Cromwell Cottage
CROMWELL COTTAGE, EASTGATE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1287426
- Date first listed:
- 08-Dec-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Cromwell Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- CROMWELL COTTAGE, EASTGATE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1287426
- Date first listed:
- 08-Dec-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Cromwell Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- CROMWELL COTTAGE, EASTGATE
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:
- CROMWELL COTTAGE, EASTGATE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- Cherwell (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Hornton
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 39377 45096
Details
HORNTON EASTGATE SP3845 (West Side) 16/122 Cromwell Cottage 08/12/55
GV II
House. c.1615 with C20 alterations. Squared, coursed ironstone, finely jointed. Steeply pitched C20-tile roof with stone-coped gables. Stone ridge and end stacks. 3-unit through-passage plan plus extension to rear left, 1 storey plus attic and 2 storeys. 4-window range. Entrance to left has cambered arched stone head, hood mould and diamond shaped label stops. Plank door. Entrance is flanked by 3-light stone mullioned windows of ovolo section with hood moulds and label stops. A similar window to right and a 3-light flat splay cellar mullion. First-attic floor has 2-, 3-, and 4-light stone mullioned windows with hood moulds and label stops. Left gable has C2) windows. Interior reputed to have plan of kitchen, hall and parlour and through passage flanked by walls of 2 feet in thickness. Fireplaces with moulded with stone arches or 4-centred heads in kitchen, hall and bedrooms. 2 winder staircases with lower 9 steps in stone. 3 dividing walls taken up to roof eliminating the need for principal rafters. Stop-chamfered spine beams. Said to have once lodged Cromwell here during the Civil Wars. A notable example of a small house, revealing architectural and structural detail equal to that found in lesser manor houses at this time. Interior not inspected. (VCH; Oxfordshire; Vol IX, p125; Wood-Jones, R.B., 1963, pp84-8, fig.18 and p1.5)
Listing NGR: SP3937745096
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 401988
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1969), 125
Wood-Jones, R B, Traditional Domestic Architecture in the Banbury Region, (1963), 84-8
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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