Combe House
COMBE HOUSE, ST THOMAS STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1343630
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jan-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Combe House
- Statutory Address:
- COMBE HOUSE, ST THOMAS STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1343630
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jan-1954
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 28-Jun-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Combe House
- Statutory Address 1:
- COMBE HOUSE, ST THOMAS 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:
- COMBE HOUSE, ST THOMAS STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- Oxford (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 50638 06142
Details
ST THOMAS' STREET 1. 1485 (South Side) Combe House (formerly listed under High Street, St Thomas) SP 5006 SE 7/124 12.1.54. II 2. Marked on Ordnance Survey as Comer House. Known also as Gate House. Built in 1702 by John Coombe, "citizen and Plaisterer of London", as a school. Dated inscription panel on north front. 2-storeyed stone with stone copings and a stone slate roof in which are gabled attic cormers. There is a stone band at the 1st floor and a coved moulded eaves cornice in wood. 2 stone-based stacks on the south with modern brick shafts. Mostly original 2-light stone-framed casement windows with leaded lights and plain mullions. The east doorway has a plain frame in stone with a moulded pediment. History. A drawing of 1821 by J C Buckler is in Bodleian M S Don. a. 3.II, 106. For inscription see Gents Mag. January 1809.
Listing NGR: SP5063806142
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 245882
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Gentlemans Magazine in January, (1809)
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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