Symonds Farmhouse
SYMONDS FARMHOUSE, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1368363
- Date first listed:
- 11-Dec-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Symonds Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- SYMONDS FARMHOUSE, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1368363
- Date first listed:
- 11-Dec-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Symonds Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- SYMONDS FARMHOUSE, 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:
- SYMONDS FARMHOUSE, HIGH STREET
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:
- Childrey
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 36116 87475
Details
CHILDREY HIGH STREET SU3687 (West side) 12/57 Symonds Farmhouse.
GV II
Farmhouse, now house. Mid-late C17. Timber-framed, square slight framing with diagonal braces; wattle and daub infill; thatched roof; brick stacks. 3-unit lobby entry plan. 2-storey, 3-window range of C20 casements except 3-light leaded casements to first floor. Flat hood on carved brackets over 6-panelled door, both of c.1840. Gabled roof, hipped to right; C17 ridge and two C19 projecting end stacks (that to right has been partly demolished). Interior: chamfered and stopped beam to left, full set of chamfered and stopped beams and joists to centre which also has part of early C19 architrave to fireplace with original chamfered bressumer: early C19 cupboard next to fireplace and also early C19 straight-flight stairs in original position opposite entry and adjacent to stack; 3-bay queen post truss with clasped pulins and windbraces; C18 and C19 plank doors; elm floorboards. C18 wing to rear right has rendered walls and thatched roof; 1 1/2-storey; 2-window range; full set of chamfered stopped beams-; 2-bay post and pad truss. Late C20 2-storey extension to rear and porch to right side wall.
Listing NGR: SU3611687475
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 250685
- 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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