Hill Farmhouse
HILL FARMHOUSE, MAIN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1293624
- Date first listed:
- 22-May-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Hill Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- HILL FARMHOUSE, MAIN STREET
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- Date:
- 2001-08-05
- Reference:
- IOE01/03581/35
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1293624
- Date first listed:
- 22-May-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Hill Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- HILL FARMHOUSE, MAIN STREET
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:
- HILL FARMHOUSE, MAIN STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- West Northamptonshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Overthorpe
- National Grid Reference:
- SP4826540785
Details
MIDDLETON CHENEY MAIN STREET
SP44SE (East side)
6/192 Overthorpe
Hill Farmhouse
GV II
House. Late C17, remodelled c.1970. Coursed limestone and ironstone rubble,
artificial stone slate roof, stone stacks. 2 storeys and attic, 4 bays. Right
bay lower and separately roofed, formed original service wing. C20 stone porch
across 2 right bays has doorway with wood lintel and 6-panel door. Re-used C17
two-light stone mullioned window to right. Original entrance was right of
centre, now filled by 4-light stone mullioned window, part re-used C17 work.
2-light stone mullioned window in left bay. All ground floor windows have
continuous stone hood. First floor windows are all of 2-lights with stone
mullions in moulded frames without hoods. Gabled half dormer second bay from
left with stone mullion and square hood. Coped gable ends with kneelers.
Interior not inspected but said to have been remodelled c.1970 when original
arrangement of rooms altered and C17 staircase removed.
(R.B. Wood-Jones, Traditional Domestic Architecture in the Banbury Region, 1963,
p.158, Plan and Elevation).
Listing NGR: SP4826540785
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 234463
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Wood-Jones, R B, Traditional Domestic Architecture in the Banbury Region, (1963), 158
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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