Placketts
PLACKETTS, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1300990
- Date first listed:
- 08-Dec-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Placketts
- Statutory Address:
- PLACKETTS, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1300990
- Date first listed:
- 08-Dec-1955
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 05-May-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Placketts
- Statutory Address 1:
- PLACKETTS, 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:
- PLACKETTS, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- Cherwell (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Adderbury
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 47196 35462
Details
SP4735 ADDERBURY HIGH STREET (East side) Adderbury East 7/38 Placketts 08/12/55 (Formerly listed as Laurel Cottage)
GV II House. Late C17/early C18 and c18/C19, extended C20. Coursed squared marlstone with some wooden lintels; Welsh-slate roof with brick gable stacks. 2-unit central-stair plan with added bay. 2 storeys plus attic. Regular 3-window front has a small stone porch, to left of centre, with wavy bargeboards and a 6-panel door, and has leaded cross windows in the outer bays plus a matching single-light transomed window over the porch; ground-floor openings have stone flat arches. Steep-pitched roof has 2 renewed gabled roof dormers with wavy bargeboards. Lower added bay to right has a further entrance and a gable parapet. Rear of main range has 2 further cross windows at ground floor, and has a small C20 extension. Front wall has a stone inscribed "B/TE". Interior: chamfered beams; large chimney breast with late C18/early C19 wooden fireplace surround, and cupboard, and a contemporary cast-iron range. (Country Life 1949: Vol 105, p88)
Listing NGR: SP4719635464
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 243760
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Country Life in Country Life, Vol. 105, (1949), 88
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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