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:: 2007-08-08
Reference:: IOE01/16914/26
Rights:: © Tim Belcher. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

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

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:: 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

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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.