Bank House and Bank Croft
BANK CROFT, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1368170
- Date first listed:
- 19-Dec-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Bank House and Bank Croft
- Statutory Address:
- BANK CROFT, HIGH STREET
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- Reference:
- IOE01/02448/07
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1368170
- Date first listed:
- 19-Dec-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Bank House and Bank Croft
- Statutory Address 1:
- BANK CROFT, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- BANK HOUSE, 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:
- BANK CROFT, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- BANK HOUSE, 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:
- Shipton-under-Wychwood
- National Grid Reference:
- SP2781017952
Details
SHIPTON-UNDER-14YCHWOOD HIGH STREET
SP 2617-2717
(west side)
7/72
Bank House and
- Bank Croft
GV II
House. Circa 1700, remodelling of earlier house, see vestiges of earlier gable line
to east. Coursed rubble with freestone quoins and timber lintels, Cotswold stone
roof, ashlar gable end chimney to left, gabled chimney to rear. Through passage
plan with stair-turret to rear; Bank Croft forms an L-plan wing. Two storeys and
gable-lit attic. Main, south front has 4 windows on first floor, casements of
irregular sizes with glazing bars, some wooden cross mullion type. Doorway in
second bay from left, chamfered wooden surround, half-glazed door. Typical early
C18 rear door and a 3-light mullion window.
Interior: east room retains a possibly C16 or early C17 fireplace with a heavy
lintel; above on first floor is a Tudor arch fireplace. East ground floor room has
chamfered beams and joists. The west ground floor room has a pair of cupboards with
splat-balluster vents. Plain roof of local type (tie beam and collar, 2 rows of
butt purlins). Bank Croft (shewn on OS Map as Bank) is a lower 2-storey wing with
2:2 windows chamfered wooden lintels and a mid C19 angled bay and door under one
pentice; concrete tile roof, plain ledged door to right. Bank Lodge, a gabled mid
C19 break to right is not included. [Shewn on OS Map as Bank Croft.]
Listing NGR: SP2781017952
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 251786
- 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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