Listing
Search the List

What is Listing?

Listing Guidance

Apply for Listing

Missing Pieces Project

Blue Plaque Scheme
Listing

Find out about listed buildings and other protected sites, and search the National Heritage List for England (NHLE).

Find out about listing

Terracotta tiles on the roof of Saintoft Lodge, Newton-on-Rawcliffe, Ryedale, North Yorkshire. Grade II listed © Historic England Archive DP371715
Advice
Climate Change

Heritage at Risk

Your Home

Technical Guidance

Planning

Caring for Heritage

Constructive Conservation
Advice

See our extensive range of expert advice to help you care for and protect historic places.

Get our advice

A contractor cutting bricks for the wall of the partially-restored wild and natural walled garden at Warley Place, Brentwood. Explore our technical advice section © Historic England Archive DP313199
Research
Our Research Strategy and Agenda

Research Governance

Latest Research

Research Methods

Current Research

Research Results

Support & Collaboration

Inclusive Heritage

Heritage Counts
Research

Discover and use our high-quality applied research to support the protection and management of the historic environment.

Discover our research

Archaeologist Dr David Neal discussing his illustration of the mosaic being excavated at Rutland Roman Villa with members of the University of Leicester Archaeological Services team View image DP264265 © Historic England
Images & Books
Find Photos

Search All Publications

Buy Books

The Historic England Archive
Images & Books

Historic England holds an extensive range of publications and historic collections in its public archive covering the historic environment.

Browse our collections

Children play with a doll and a pram on the cobbled Church Path in Queen Camel, Somerset, in April 1953. At the far end of the path is the tower of the Church of St Barnabas, which dates to the 14th century. Photographer: John Gay Image reference: AA091596 © Historic England Archive
Services & Skills
Education

Grants

Our Planning Services

Training & Skills

Archive Services

Heritage Action Zones

Levelling Up Places Service
Services & Skills

Find out about services offered by Historic England for funding, planning, education and research, as well as training and skill development.

Learn about our services

Heritage Apprentices in a training session on the Researching The Historic Environment module and training in Architectural Photography. Find out more about Heritage Apprenticeships © Historic England Archive DP347660
What's New
News

In Your Area

Historic England Blog

Latest Research

Heritage Online Debate

Statements

Stay up to Date
What's New

Read about our current news, projects and campaigns nationally and in your area.

Catch up with what's new

Two horsemen reading The Sportsman, 30 Oct 1902, Farnborough, Stratford-on-Avon, Warwickshire. Part of the Alfred Newton and Sons collection. Source Historic England Archive. BB98/02592
About Us
What We Do

Who We Are

How We Are Funded

Contact Us

Careers

Volunteer with Historic England
About Us

Historic England is the public body that helps people care for, enjoy and celebrate England's spectacular historic environment.

Find out more

Mountbatten House (formerly Gateway House), Basing View, Basingstoke, the former headquarters for the paper merchants Wiggins Teape by Arup Associates. Listed at Grade II. © Historic England
Sign in
Manage my account

Sign out

Agents House Sarsden Estate

Agents House Sarsden Estate, Sarsden, Chipping Norton, OX7 6PP

Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places

Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1367796
Date first listed:: 14-May-1989
List Entry Name:: Agents House Sarsden Estate
Statutory Address:: Agents House Sarsden Estate, Sarsden, Chipping Norton, OX7 6PP

The Missing Pieces Project

Share your view of unique places.

Add your contribution

Location

Location of this list entry and nearby places that are also listed. Use our map search to find more listed places.

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

Find out more about listing

Historic England Archive

Search over 1 million photographs and drawings from the 1850s to the present day using our images archive.

Find Photos

Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1367796
Date first listed:: 14-May-1989
List Entry Name:: Agents House Sarsden Estate
Statutory Address 1:: Agents House Sarsden Estate, Sarsden, Chipping Norton, OX7 6PP

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: Agents House Sarsden Estate, Sarsden, Chipping Norton, OX7 6PP

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

County:: Oxfordshire
District:: West Oxfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Sarsden
National Grid Reference:: SP 28740 22965

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 16 August 2022 to amend the name and address and to reformat the text to current standards

SP22SE 7/197

SARSDEN Sarsden Estate Agents House

(Formerly listed as Old Rectory (estate office))

GV II

Early C19 house, probably incorporating parts of an earlier building; later additions and alterations. Roughly coursed limestone rubble; stone slate roofs. Double-depth plan. Two storeys and attic. Road side has three glazing bar sashes to left and tripartite sash to right on first floor, all with wedged voussoirs. Tripartite sashes to left and right on ground floor with similar voussoirs and two glazing bar sashes roughly to centre, left in position of infilled doorway with plain stone surround. Three gabled dormers in middle of roof slope. Integral end stacks with moulded dripstone and capping, right with shaft rebuilt C20, Cellar to left lit by two-light ovolo-moulded mullion window. Low C19 L-shaped service range attached to right at junction with parallel rear range. This has former entrance front (course of road has moved) in three bays; glazing bar sashes in plain stone surrounds. Central entrance; six-panel door (upper panels now glazed) with wreathed and radiating fanlight under C19 flat-roofed wooden porch with curved braces and trefoils to spandrels. Three gabled dormers as on road side. Integral end stacks with moulded dripstones and capping.

Interior. Inspection not possible at time of resurvey (August 1987) but rear range noted as having early C19 dog-leg staircase with stick balusters to open string, wreathed and ramped handrail and circular bottom newel. Panelled window shutters.

It has been suggested that this building is the 'staring house', which Humphry Repton in his Red Book (c.1796) for John Langston, owner of Sarsden House (q.v.), proposed should be screened by trees. The building shown in the Red Book, however, has a hipped roof. While it is possible that the present double-span gabled roof may be a C19 remodelling, the house is situated too far west to be the building depicted in the Red Book, which is shown immediately next to the stables (q.v.) of Sarsden House, which are in fact some distance to the west. A building on the site and another near the stables (marked as Farmhouse and The Pigeon House) respectively are shown on estate maps of 1788 and 1795. The Pigeon House (now demolished) is more likely to be the 'staring house' referred to by Repton.

(Nigel Temple: 'Sarsden, Oxfordshire'; Journal of Garden History: Vol.6, No.2 (1986)

[2647]

Listing NGR: SP2874022965

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 254092
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
'Garden History' in Garden History, , Vol. 6, (1986)

Legal

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