42A AND 42B, HIGH STREET
42A AND 42B, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1300905
- Date first listed:
- 05-May-1988
- List Entry Name:
- 42A AND 42B, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 42A AND 42B, HIGH STREET
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- Date:
- 1999-08-05
- Reference:
- IOE01/00464/21
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1300905
- Date first listed:
- 05-May-1988
- List Entry Name:
- 42A AND 42B, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 42A AND 42B, HIGH 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:
- 42A AND 42B, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- Vale of White Horse (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Milton
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 48566 92362
Details
MILTON HIGH STREET SU4892 (West side) 8/161 Nos.42a and 42b GV II* House, now 2 dwellings. Early C14, with C15 extensions and later alterations. Stone rubble plinth; irregular timber-framing with tension braces and rendered infill; thatch roof; old plain-tile hipped roof to cross-wing; stone-based brick ridge stack to left of centre; brick ridge stack to cross-wing. Single-ended hall-house plan. Single storey and attic; 3-bay range with 2-storey, 3-bay cross-wing- to left. Flank door to left of main range. Irregular fenestration of casements. Interior not inspected but the following information fluted; west range has chamber-bay to west end, originally single-storeyed; which has partition truss with tie-beam, dragon-ties. Queen posts supporting arcade plates, and central crown-post. Next two bays were open hall; central arch-braced base-cruck truss with single tie and crown post over with chamfers and roll strips, and curved square 4-way braces. Brick and stone stack inserted into smoke-bay. Arcade plates end in aisled-end truss with bases of Queen-posts embedded in wing all and bevelled in imitation of stone corbels. Crown-post roof to cross-wing. Cross-wing originally jettied with dragon-ties at former corners. Original bargeboards survive in North end with cinqfoiled decoration. (Unpublished research information by Dr. C.R.J. Currie)
Listing NGR: SU4856092362
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 250024
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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