OXFORD HOUSE

OXFORD HOUSE, 17 AND 19, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1337902
Date first listed:: 10-Apr-1987
List Entry Name:: OXFORD HOUSE
Statutory Address:: OXFORD HOUSE, 17 AND 19, HIGH STREET

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Date:: 2001-05-06
Reference:: IOE01/04164/09
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1337902
Date first listed:: 10-Apr-1987
List Entry Name:: OXFORD HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: OXFORD HOUSE, 17 AND 19, HIGH STREET

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: OXFORD HOUSE, 17 AND 19, HIGH STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Essex
District:: Braintree (District Authority)
Parish:: Earls Colne
National Grid Reference:: TL 85684 28952

Details

TL 8428-8528 EARLS COLNE HIGH STREET (north side)

8/70 Nos. 17 and 19 (Oxford House)

GV II

On the OS map no. 19 is wrongly included in the Public House to the E. House and shop. C14, late C15 and late C18, altered in early C19. Timber framed, clad with red brick in Flemish bond, roofed with handmade red plain tiles. C14 aisled hall, of 2 bays facing S. Early C16 stack in rear aisle, and C16 4-bay extension beyond. C15 crosswing to right, and later stack to right, roof rebuilt to align with main range. Front aisle missing. 2 storeys. Ground floor, projecting C20 double shopfront with central door (no. 17), late C19 shopfront converted into sash window, with projecting fluted jambs and flat canopy with egg-and-dart frieze, all in red brick. First floor, 4 C19 sashes with marginal lights. A brick pilaster divides the shop from the small domestic facade at right, which has a C20 door with flat canopy and moulded architrave, and a plain door with fanlight to a through-passage. The frame of the former aisled hall is fragmentary, but indicates twin service doors at the right end, bench fixings at the left end, and a heavily smoke-blackened crownpost roof with down bracing to the tiebeams. Carved and crenellated mantel beam at front of rear stack. Moulded and carved bridging beam with running vine design and the molet of the de Veres, Earls of Oxford. Moulded joists of horizontal section. Documentary evidence indicates that this house was in the hands of the Leffingwell family in 1468, 1592 and 1598 (Wherein I Dwell, Earls Colne WEA, 1983, 49. R. Shackle, An Aisled Hall at Earls Colne, Essex Archaeology and History 16, 1984-5, 153-4). RCHM 9.

Listing NGR: TL8568428952

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 115918
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Wherein I Dwell, (1983), 49
'Essex Archaeology and History' in Essex Archaeology and History, , Vol. 16, (1985), 153-4

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.