Cowleaze Farmhouse

COWLEAZE FARMHOUSE, STAINSWICK LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1368370
Date first listed:
31-Oct-1983
List Entry Name:
Cowleaze Farmhouse
Statutory Address:
COWLEAZE FARMHOUSE, STAINSWICK LANE

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Date:
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1368370
Date first listed:
31-Oct-1983
List Entry Name:
Cowleaze Farmhouse
Statutory Address 1:
COWLEAZE FARMHOUSE, STAINSWICK LANE

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
COWLEAZE FARMHOUSE, STAINSWICK LANE

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:
Shrivenham
National Grid Reference:
SU 24508 87960

Details

1. SHRIVENHAM STAINSWICK LANE (east side) SU 28 NW 4/63 Cowleaze Farmhouse

II

2. C17 range of rubble stone and brick faced with plaster to the attic and a gabled thatched roof with end brick stacks from which projects a SE wing of chequer brick with a half hipped thatched roof and one end brick stack. The C17 range has a principal S front of 1 storey and attic and 3 bays. 3 gabled bargebloarded dormers with 3 light, 4 pane casements and 2 ground floor windows in brick surrounds with 9 panes and 3 pane margin lights. Centrally placed part-glazed panelled door with a diamond patterned rectangular fanlight beneath a C20 stone porch. The C19 addition is also of 1 storey and attic but 2 bays wide with similar ground floor windows and 2 light, 4 pane casements to the dormers set in the thatch. Thatched lean-to porch with C20 glazed door.

Listing NGR: SU2450887960

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
250611
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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