The Hermitage
THE HERMITAGE, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1366111
- Date first listed:
- 26-Nov-1951
- List Entry Name:
- The Hermitage
- Statutory Address:
- THE HERMITAGE, HIGH STREET
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- Date:
- 2001-09-28
- Reference:
- IOE01/05259/05
- Rights:
- © Mr Alistair F Nisbet. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1366111
- Date first listed:
- 26-Nov-1951
- List Entry Name:
- The Hermitage
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE HERMITAGE, 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:
- THE HERMITAGE, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- Cherwell (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Souldern
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 52077 31527
Details
SOULDERN HIGH STREET SP5231 (North side) 14/88 The Hermitage 26/11/51
GV II
House. C17 with C18 and C20 alterations. 2 builds, Squared coursed limestone. Steeply pitched stone slate roof laid to diminishing courses, 4 renewed brick ridge and end stacks, 2 with chamfered stone bases. Stone coped gable on left. L-plan. 2 storeys plus attic. 6-window range. Entrance off-centre to right has 6-panelled door in gabled C20 porch. To right of parch 3 sashes with glazing bars in flush wood frames and with chamfered wood lintels. 3 similar windows above. To left of porch, three 2- and 4-light C20 wood mullioned and transomed windows with chamfered wood lintels. Three 2-light similar windows above, 3 roof dormers with hipped slate roofs, wood casements and wrought-iron casement fasteners. Interior said to have C17 back staircase brought from The Court (q.v.) and reused at The Hermitage as main front staircase. Interior no inspected. (VCH; Oxfordshire; Vol VI, p302)
Listing NGR: SP5207731527
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 243682
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1959), 302
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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