Castle Cottage
CASTLE COTTAGE
Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1367787
- Date first listed:
- 15-May-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Castle Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- CASTLE COTTAGE
Have you got a photo to share?
Join the Missing Pieces Project. We want you to share your photos and memories.
Location
Location of this list entry and nearby places that are also listed. Use our map search to find more listed places.
Use of this mapping is subject to terms and conditions .
This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale.
What is the National Heritage List for England?
The National Heritage List for England is a unique register of our country's most significant historic buildings and sites. The places on the list are protected by law and most are not open to the public.
The list includes:
 |
Buildings |
 |
Scheduled monuments |
 |
Parks and gardens |
 |
Battlefields |
 |
Shipwrecks |
Local Heritage Hub
Unlock and explore hidden histories, aerial photography, and listed buildings and places for every county, district, city and major town across England.
Discover moreOfficial list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1367787
- Date first listed:
- 15-May-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Castle Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- CASTLE 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:
- CASTLE COTTAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- West Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Chastleton
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 23961 30929
Details
CHASTLETON KITEBROOKEND SP23SW 1/40 Castle Cottage
GV II
House. Early C17 with later additions and alterations. Regularly coursed and dressed marlstone rubble; concrete tile roofs with coped verges to front gable of higher range. Original house probably an L-plan but higher range truncated to rear. 2 storeys with gable-lit attic to higher range. This has chamfered plinth (missing to rebuilt back wall) with Tudor-arched doorway to cellar and infilled opening to right to front gable; 3-light chamfered mullion window with drip-stone to each floor. Left return has similar 2-light mullion window on each floor and chamfered rectangular window lighting cellar. Lower range has 3-light mullion window (centre and right lights infilled) with dripstone on first floor to left and contemporary chamfered rectangular window with dripstone below to left. Partly infilled opening (probably a former doorway) to right has C17 dripstone and C20 two-light mullion window. Rebuilt integral end stack to right. Interior. Ground-floor room of higher range has chamfered spine beam with stepped ogee stops; corner fireplace with chamfered Tudor arch and moulded overmantel. C17 ledged plank door with strap hinges in chamfered wood surround with stepped ogee stops. Left ground-floor room of lower range has chamfered ceiling beam. Altered dog-leg oak staircase rising to attic with timber frame exposed on first floor; wide floor boards to both ranges on first floor. First-floor room of higher range same as that on ground floor except that it has a C19 cast-iron grate to fireplace. Attic has single butt-purlin cambered collar truss roof in 2 bays with rear truss very close to present back wall. Chamfered cross beam to cellar, which formerly continued to rear but now infilled to this part; cellar also below tower range but not accessible at time of resurvey (August 1987). Door made up of C17 square panelling with cocks head hinges in C20 addition to rear. Reputed to be the birthplace of Judge Jeffreys, some materials (including windows) from Castle Cottage are said to have been used in the building of nearby Brookend House (q.v.). C20 lean-to attached to right gable end of lower range and flat-roofed addition to rear are not of special architectural interest. [2481]
Listing NGR: SP2396130929
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 253931
- 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.
Map
This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale. This copy shows the entry on 15-Jun-2026 at 01:25:07.
Download a full scale map (PDF)End of official list entry
All text content is available under the Open Government Licence v3.0 , except where otherwise stated. Any supplied maps are © Crown Copyright [and database rights] 2026 OS AC0000815036 and may not be reproduced without permission.