Red Brick Cottage
RED BRICK COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1367759
- Date first listed:
- 27-Aug-1957
- List Entry Name:
- Red Brick Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- RED BRICK COTTAGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1367759
- Date first listed:
- 27-Aug-1957
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 15-May-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Red Brick Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- RED BRICK COTTAGE
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:
- RED BRICK COTTAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- West Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Bruern
- National Grid Reference:
- SP2665420373
Details
BRUERN
SP 22 SE
7/7 Red Brick Cottage
(formerly listed as part
27.8.57 of House and bridge in
grounds of Bruern Abbey)
GV II*
House. Early C18 incorporating part of a medieval building; later additions and
alterations, extended late C20, Chequered red brick (blue brick headers) with
ashlar dressings to south and roughly coursed limestone rubble with red brick
dressings to north; hipped stone slate roof. 2 storeys and attic with alternating
angle quoins to south side. 5-window front; glazing bar sashes (some horned) to
first floor and casements in imitation of sashes to ground floor, all windows
with projecting keystones to stone lintels; 3 hip-roofed dormers with horned
sashes in middle of roof slope. Central glazed door with head like those of
windows. Rebuilt internal lateral stack to rear left corner. North side in
3 bays has sash window with thick glazing bars to left on first floor, C18 oculus
to centre and horned glazing bar sashes to right. Half-glazed door to centre
and leaded casements with wood lintels to either side on ground floor. 3 hip-
roofed dormers like those on south. Interior: Only partial inspection possible at
time of resurvey (August 1987). Left ground-floor room has plastered groined
vault in 3 bays (possibly a former undercroft), which may be the only surviving
fragment of the Cistercian abbey founded at Bruern in 1147 (q.v. under Bruern
Abbey). Lower C20 ranges attached to left and right are not of special archi-
tectural interest.
(Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, p500)
(2448)
Listing NGR: SP2665420373
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 253896
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 500
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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