Dore's Cottage
DORE'S COTTAGE, 17, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1367874
- Date first listed:
- 08-Oct-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Dore's Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- DORE'S COTTAGE, 17, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1367874
- Date first listed:
- 08-Oct-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Dore's Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- DORE'S COTTAGE, 17, HIGH STREET
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:
- DORE'S COTTAGE, 17, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- West Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Finstock
- National Grid Reference:
- SP3604316105
Details
FINSTOCK HIGH STREET
SP3616 (South side)
17/40 No.17 (Dore's Cottage)
08/10/84
GV II
Shown on Ordnance Survey map as The Old Shop.
House. Dated 1666, with C18 addition and late C20 alterations. Coursed limestone
rubble with thatched roof; C20 machine tile roof to addition. T-plan; 2-unit
range with central wing to front and later addition to right. One storey and
attic and 2 storeys. Integral dressed stone end stacks. Dormer to right C17
two-light chamfered mullioned wooden casement (relocated in late C20). Small
ground floor window to right with wooden lintel. C20 boarded doors off-centre to
left and right, with wooden lintels. Central gabled wing with C20 two-light
wooden attic casement. Moulded datestone above, inscribed "WC/1666". Addition
(see straight joint) to right with 3-light wooden casement. Rear: 3 square eaves
dormers with 2- and 3-light wooden casements. Two ground-floor 3-light wooden
casements flanking central 2-light casement, with wooden lintels. C20 boarded
door to left of central window. Addition to left with small dormer and ground
floor 3-light casement. Interior: right-hand ground-floor room with chamfered
spine beams and joists. Large open fireplaces with wooden lintels in left and
right-hand rooms. C17 winder stair to rear of right-hand stack. Right-hand
first-floor rear room has C17 stone corner fireplace with moulded cornice.
Listing NGR: SP3604316105
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 252481
- 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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