Lees Rest
LEES REST
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1367827
- Date first listed:
- 18-May-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Lees Rest
- Statutory Address:
- LEES REST
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1367827
- Date first listed:
- 18-May-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Lees Rest
- Statutory Address 1:
- LEES REST
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:
- LEES REST
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- West Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Charlbury
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 37550 19182
Details
CHALBURY - SP 31 NE 2/12 Lee's Rest - II
Large farmhouse. C18 probably incorporating earlier features and much restored in 1950s. Coursed squared rubble with ashlar dressings and stone slate roof. E-plan, including former farm buildings to right now part of the house. 2 storeys; 6-window range. Projecting gabled porch to left of centre has C20 door and windows in side walls. 4-light C20 stone mullioned windows to right and left under drip moulds. Similar 3-light casements in projecting end wings, those to the right under timber lintels. Smaller mullioned windows on first floor. Massive external stone chimney on side of left wing; ridge chimneys to left of main range and on right wing. Interior has fireplace with Tudor-arched lintel in left ground-floor room; re-set panelling in former agricultural range to right; and some exposed roof timbers including a queen-post (or-strut) truss. The late C16 hunting lodge was apparently demolished soon after 1720 but there was a farmhouse on the site by 1768. VCH Oxfordshire 10 (1972).
Listing NGR: SP3755019182
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 254152
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1972)
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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