Begbroke Hill Farmhouse
BEGBROKE HILL FARMHOUSE, SANDY LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1291316
- Date first listed:
- 26-Nov-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Begbroke Hill Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- BEGBROKE HILL FARMHOUSE, SANDY LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1291316
- Date first listed:
- 26-Nov-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Begbroke Hill Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- BEGBROKE HILL FARMHOUSE, SANDY LANE
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:
- BEGBROKE HILL FARMHOUSE, SANDY LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- Cherwell (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Begbroke
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 47933 13466
Details
BEGBROKE SANDY LANE SP41SE (North side) 3/1 Begbroke Hill Farmhouse
26/11/51
- II
Farmhouse, now offices. c.1604 for Humphrey Fitzherbert. Coursed limestone rubble; gabled artificial stone slate roof with moulded kneelers to stone acoping; stone end stacks. Double-depth plan. Jacobean style. 2 storeys and attic; 5-window range. 3-storey central porch has pyramidal finials to stone-coped gable; 2- and 3-light ovolo-moulded stone-mullioned windows; label mould over chamfered shallow-arched doorway with roundels set in spandrels and C20 door. Similar 3-light and 4-light windows; similar 2-light windows set in gabled dormers to end bays with pyramidal finials to stone-coped gables. Similar windows to sides and rear. C19 rear extension. Early C17 blocked chamfered pointed arch with moulded imposts to C17 cellar to rear right. Interior: porch has plaster quadripartite vaulted ceiling and stop-chamfered segmental-arched doorway. Stone-flag floors, Quartered beams to right, have moulded cornices and trailing scrolls and flowers to soffits of beams and frieze. Stop-chamfered beams to left and first floor. Restored winder stairs to rear right. Moulded and arched stone fireplace with sunk spandrels to first floor room on left. Butt-purlin roof, In 1604 Fitzherbert was accused of ruining nearby roads by the frequent use of "late carriages for his buildings". (Buildings of England: Oxfordshire: p450; Information from the VCH)
Listing NGR: SP4793313466
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 393665
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1990)
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 450
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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