Strattenborough Castle
STRATTENBOROUGH CASTLE, HIGHWORTH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1368372
- Date first listed:
- 31-Oct-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Strattenborough Castle
- Statutory Address:
- STRATTENBOROUGH CASTLE, HIGHWORTH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1368372
- Date first listed:
- 31-Oct-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Strattenborough Castle
- Statutory Address 1:
- STRATTENBOROUGH CASTLE, HIGHWORTH ROAD
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:
- STRATTENBOROUGH CASTLE, HIGHWORTH ROAD
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:
- Watchfield
- National Grid Reference:
- SU2373892152
Details
1. WATCHFIELD HIGHWORTH ROAD
Strattenborough Castle
SU 29 SW 1/80
II
2.
Dated 1792 on the N front to the left of the main door above a ground floor window
Built to double as a working farm and a Gothick eye-catcher for Coleshill House.
Rubble stone and brick with dressed stone quoins and openings. The farmhouse faces
its yard to the S, but its N front rises above the dwelling's roofline to form a wall
with 2 castellated projecting sham towers, one square the other polygonal. The
combination of materials suggests either a late C18 sensitivity to the organic growth
of a building: brick additions to an earlier, stone structure or a complete
rehabilitation at a much later date. The whole N facade is punctuated by mullioned
and cross mullioned windows, some blind, others with 9 pane sashes. Other features
include single and cruciform arrowslits, elaborate string coursing and stone arched
surrounds with brick infil. A wall from the main block links it on the E with a
stepped gabled barn. This is symmetrically balanced to the W by another, larger, barn
with a gabled stone tiled roof which is set further back and has a N end with an
enormous sham window of 5 lights, partly ruinous, all bricked in . Below this
'window' is a genuine C11 Norman tympanum and above it, set in brick, the date 1794.
Listing NGR: SU2373892152
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 250619
- 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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