GRIFFIN HOUSE AND STABLE

GRIFFIN HOUSE AND STABLE, BETWEEN TOWNS

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1368209
Date first listed:: 18-May-1987
List Entry Name:: GRIFFIN HOUSE AND STABLE
Statutory Address:: GRIFFIN HOUSE AND STABLE, BETWEEN TOWNS

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1368209
Date first listed:: 18-May-1987
List Entry Name:: GRIFFIN HOUSE AND STABLE
Statutory Address 1:: GRIFFIN HOUSE AND STABLE, BETWEEN TOWNS

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: GRIFFIN HOUSE AND STABLE, BETWEEN TOWNS

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Oxfordshire
District:: West Oxfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Swerford
National Grid Reference:: SP 37379 31334

Details

SWERFORD BETWEEN TOWNS SP3731 9/180 Griffin House and stable - II Public house, now house. 1691 on datestone; possibly partly earlier. Coursed squared marlstone with some limestone-rubble banding; wooden lintels; Welsh-slate roof with stone and brick stacks L-plan, 2 storeys 3-window front of main range, in banded rubble, has a central plank door, a 3-light casement to right and a 4-light casement to left; at first floor are casements of 3, 2 and 3 lights, that to left with ovolo-moulded wood mullions and frame. Datestone to left of centre is carved with drapery and inscribed "RB/1691". Stable bay to right has a loft door and a stable door but is partly obscured. Roof has stacks flanking house bays, that to right with a rendered stone base. Left gable wall rids a further entrance and returns to a lower rear wing with a large 3-light casement over 2 small wood-mullioned windows. Stair tower in angle of ranges has a blocked 2-light ovolo-moulded wood-mullioned window with intermediate bars, and there is a 3-light window with chamfered mullions and bars. Most lintels have moulded chamfer stops. Interior not inspected.

Listing NGR: SP3737931334

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 251996
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.