EYECATCHER AT SP 4828 2603

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1357142
Date first listed:: 08-Dec-1955
List Entry Name:: EYECATCHER AT SP 4828 2603
Statutory Address:: EYECATCHER AT SP 4828 2603

Folly built as a high wall with three arches and eleven pinnacles on skyline — Uploaded by John Shortland This photo may not represent the current condition of the site
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1357142
Date first listed:: 08-Dec-1955
List Entry Name:: EYECATCHER AT SP 4828 2603
Statutory Address 1:: EYECATCHER AT SP 4828 2603

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: EYECATCHER AT SP 4828 2603

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

County:: Oxfordshire
District:: Cherwell (District Authority)
Parish:: Steeple Aston
National Grid Reference:: SP 48280 26030

Details

STEEPLE ASTON SP42NE 2/98 Eyecatcher at SP 4828 2603 08/12/55 - II*

Eyecatcher. c.1740 by William Kent. Naristone rubble with squared dressings. A folly in the form of a high wall, the top of which rises over 3 graduated arched openings and is ornamented with 11 rubble pinnacles. The front has shallow buttresses, and there are large raking buttresses to rear. The Eyecatcher stands on the skyline of the principal view from Ronsham Park, and forms an important feature of Kent's landscape design, It is one of the earliest examples of a sham ruin. (VCH: Oxfordshire: Vol XI, p29; buildings of England: Oxfordshire, p745; M. Jourdain, The Work of William Kent, 1948, p81.)

Listing NGR: SP4828026030

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 422387
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Jourdain, M , The Work of William Kent, (1948), 81
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 745
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1983), 29

Legal

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