Bridewell Farmhouse
BRIDEWELL FARMHOUSE, WILCOTE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1367960
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jun-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Bridewell Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- BRIDEWELL FARMHOUSE, WILCOTE ROAD
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- Date:
- 2001-11-26
- Reference:
- IOE01/03515/28
- Rights:
- © Dr John W. Herries. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1367960
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jun-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Bridewell Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- BRIDEWELL FARMHOUSE, WILCOTE ROAD
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:
- BRIDEWELL FARMHOUSE, WILCOTE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- West Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- North Leigh
- National Grid Reference:
- SP3776214599
Details
NORTH LEIGH WILCOTE ROAD
SP31SE (West side)
9/193 Bridewell Farmhouse
- II
Farmhouse. Datestone 1761 above door. Rendered front over limestone rubble with
ashlar quoins and dressings; gabled Welsh slate roof; brick end stacks.
Double-depth plan, with flanking outshuts. Mid Georgian style. 3 storeys;
symmetrical 3-window range. 6-panelled (2 glazed) door set in moulded wood
architrave with late C19 gabled hood. C20 windows set in eared architraves with
triple keyblocks. Flanking outshuts each have lunette and string course above
8-pane sash set in similar eared architrave. Interior: panelled doors; central
dog-leg with landing staircase has slender turned balusters. Built after
enclosure by Bridewell Hospital which owned the land.
(Information from the VCH).
Listing NGR: SP3776214599
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 252849
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1983)
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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