Shepherds Cottage
SHEPHERDS COTTAGE, FOSCOT, CHIPPING NORTON, OX7 6RL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1367783
- Date first listed:
- 15-May-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Shepherds Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- SHEPHERDS COTTAGE, FOSCOT, CHIPPING NORTON, OX7 6RL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1367783
- Date first listed:
- 15-May-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Shepherds Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- SHEPHERDS COTTAGE, FOSCOT, CHIPPING NORTON, OX7 6RL
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:
- SHEPHERDS COTTAGE, FOSCOT, CHIPPING NORTON, OX7 6RL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- West Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Idbury
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 24922 21904
Details
SP22SW
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IDBURY
FOSCOT
Shepherds Cottage
GV
II
Cottage. Late C17 with later additions and alterations. Roughly coursed limestone rubble; plain tile roof. 2-room plan. 2 storeys and gable-lit attic. Two 2-light chamfered mullion windows directly below eaves and one to lower left, C20 casement with concrete lintel in position of infilled doorway to right of centre and similar casement with wood lintel to right. Integral ashlar end stack to left with moulded dripstone and capping and integral end stack to right rebuilt late C20. C19 lean-to to left gable end.
Interior. Left ground-floor room has inglenook fireplace with chamfered wood lintel and bread oven to right with C19 cast-iron door bearing maker's emblem (Vale and Co.). C20 lean-to attached to right gable end is not of special architectural interest.
Listing NGR: SP2492221904
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 254009
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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