Rectorial Tithe Barn
RECTORIAL TITHE BARN, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1368063
- Date first listed:
- 27-Aug-1957
- List Entry Name:
- Rectorial Tithe Barn
- Statutory Address:
- RECTORIAL TITHE BARN, CHURCH STREET
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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/14970/27
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1368063
- Date first listed:
- 27-Aug-1957
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Aug-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Rectorial Tithe Barn
- Statutory Address 1:
- RECTORIAL TITHE BARN, CHURCH 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:
- RECTORIAL TITHE BARN, CHURCH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- West Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Enstone
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 37853 25106
Details
ENSTONE CHURCH STREET SP3625-3725 (North side) Church Enstone 14/51 Rectorial Tithe Barn 27/08/57 (Formerly listed as Barn at Rectory Farm)
GV II*
Tithe barn. 1382 for Walter de Wynforton, Abbot of Winchcombe; probably partly rebuilt. Limestone rubble with marlstone-ashlar dressings; stone-slate roof. 6-bay plan with a porch to bay 3 and opposed double doors. Bays are defined by ashlar buttresses, rising from chamfered plinths, and some areas of walling retain plinths; further buttresses flank main doors of hipped-roofed porch. Right end wall has some triangular vents; left end wall has a central buttress, a horizontal ashlar weathering, a gable slit and a stone parapet. Side door to porch has chamfered jambs and may have been arched. Re-set datestone in bay one is flanked by carved heads and has a 4-line Latin inscription containing the date 1382. Interior: heavy elbowed cruck blades, springing approximately 1.5 metres above the floor, are each linked by 2 collars and an apex yoke; 2 rows of trenched purlins, ridge piece and rafters are mostly C20. Porch has 2 tiebeam trusses with apex yokes. Scheduled as an Ancient Monument. (Buildings of England: Oxfordshire: p594; R.Wood-Jones: Traditional Domestic Architecture in the Banbury Region, 1963: pp15-19)
Listing NGR: SP3785325106
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 253232
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 594
Wood-Jones, R B, Traditional Domestic Architecture in the Banbury Region, (1963), 15-19
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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