Arabella's Cottage
ARABELLA'S COTTAGE, HOLBORN HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1368359
- Date first listed:
- 11-Dec-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Arabella's Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- ARABELLA'S COTTAGE, HOLBORN HILL
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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/16914/26
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1368359
- Date first listed:
- 11-Dec-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Arabella's Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- ARABELLA'S COTTAGE, HOLBORN HILL
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:
- ARABELLA'S COTTAGE, HOLBORN HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- Vale of White Horse (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Letcombe Bassett
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 37256 85126
Details
LETCOMBE BASSETT HOLBORN HILL SU38NE (North side) 7/120 Arabella's Cottage
GV II
House. Early C18. Uncoursed and sarsen chalk rubble; brick quoins; thatched roof; brick stack. 2-unit lobby-entry plan. 1 1/2-storey, 2-window range. Timber lintel over original blocked door to left, and over C20 casements; half- hipped roof; end stack to left. Interior: original beams, chamfered bressumer over fireplace with cast iron door to bread oven; closed timber-framed truss with butt purlins, elm floorboards. Late C20 extension to left and to right; present entry in rear right wall. Cottage named after its association with Arabella in "Jude the obscure", by Thomas Hardy, 1895.
Listing NGR: SU3725685126
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 250763
- 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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