Compton Beauchamp House and Walling and Attached Bridge to North
COMPTON BEAUCHAMP HOUSE AND WALLING AND ATTACHED BRIDGE TO NORTH
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1368367
- Date first listed:
- 10-Nov-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Compton Beauchamp House and Walling and Attached Bridge to North
- Statutory Address:
- COMPTON BEAUCHAMP HOUSE AND WALLING AND ATTACHED BRIDGE TO NORTH
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1368367
- Date first listed:
- 10-Nov-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 11-Dec-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Compton Beauchamp House and Walling and Attached Bridge to North
- Statutory Address 1:
- COMPTON BEAUCHAMP HOUSE AND WALLING AND ATTACHED BRIDGE TO NORTH
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:
- COMPTON BEAUCHAMP HOUSE AND WALLING AND ATTACHED BRIDGE TO NORTH
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:
- Compton Beauchamp
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 27986 86926
Details
COMPTON BEAUCHAMP SU28NE 5/74 Compton Beauchamp House and 10/11/52 walling and attached bridge to north (Formerly listed as Compton Beauchamp House,with GV gatepiers. railings and gates to drive.) I Country house. C16, interior remodelled and front rebuilt c.1710. Owned in C16 by Fettiplace family, rebuilt c.1710 by Edward Richards. Limestone ashlar to facade, rest of house in C16 brick with limestone quoins and dressings; stone slate roof; brick stacks. Courtyard plan. Baroque style 2 storeys and attic. 2:3:2 facade with central 3 bays brought forward. Central late C19 6-panelled double doors with flat arch of voussoirs and plain architrave, early C18 sashes to all windows. In central 3-bay elevations ground floor windows have flat arches of voussoirs and plain architrave, first and attic floors have moulded architraves: First floor windows have moulded drip. Windows in side bays have plain architraves with moulded drip over to ground floor, moulded architraves to first floor. Central 3 bays have banded rustication to ground floor, large Doric pilasters to moulded cornice and balustraded parapet. Courtyard has two- light late C16 cavetto - moulded stone-mullioned windows to left wall. 4- light late C17/early C18 leaded casements to wall opposite entry. 2-light late C17/ early C18 leaded casements and two 2-light late C16 cavetto - moulded stone- mullioned windows to right wall. Left wall of house has 2-light late C17/ early C18 leaded casements, one 2-light late C16 cavetto-moulded stone- mullioned window and two 2-light early C16 stone-mullioned windows with arched heads: three C16 lateral stacks. Right wall has two 2-light late C16 cavetto- moulded stone-mullioned windows and four late C17/early C18 four-light leaded casements; two Cl6 lateral stacks. Late C19 sashes, C16 stacks to rear. Gabled roofs to sides and rear. Interior: rear room has full set of late C16 moulded beams and joists. Rear right room has fireplace of c.1710 with bolection-moulded architrave flanked by fluted lonic pilasters with pulvinated frieze; moulded dado rail and skirting of c.1710; Stairs to rear left: dog leg with landing, c.1710, closed string, turned balusters, moulded wall string, bolection moulded panelling and dado.Stairs to rear right of same type and date but with plain fielded panelling. First floor has gallery to right with bolection-moulded panelling; some panels have painted decoration of c.1710 in oriental style depicting birds, bamboo etc. Rear right has panelling of c.1740 with C16 fireplace which has bolection-moulded overmantle; bolection-moulded panelling to adjoining room and to front left. Late C16 fireplaces with moulded stone surrounds. The house is approached by a bridge carried over the moat. Limestone ashlar bridge with balustraded parapet swept round to balustraded wall which terminates in square piers at the corners of the moat. The arched heads to the windows on the east (left) side suggest that the original builder was Sir Thomas Fettiplace, who acquired the manor in the early C16. The house was substantially rebuilt in the late C16, which may be associated with the stone with the inscription M. Bressels Fettiplace 1583 to the right wall of the front entrance passage. The building of c.1710 has been associated with the marriage of Edward Richards to Rachel, daughter of Sir Edmund Warreford of Sevenhampton in about c.1710. Country Life, 24 June 1899 and Nov 30 1918. Buildings of England, Berkshire: p.121.
Listing NGR: SU2798686926
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 250703
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Berkshire, (1966), 121
Country Life in 24 June, (1899)
Country Life in 30 November, (1918)
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 34 Oxfordshire
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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