The Old House
THE OLD HOUSE, 17, UPPER GREEN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1368436
- Date first listed:
- 15-Jan-1986
- List Entry Name:
- The Old House
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD HOUSE, 17, UPPER GREEN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1368436
- Date first listed:
- 15-Jan-1986
- List Entry Name:
- The Old House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD HOUSE, 17, UPPER GREEN
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:
- THE OLD HOUSE, 17, UPPER GREEN
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:
- Stanford in the Vale
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 34084 93896
Details
STANFORD-IN-THE-VALE UPPER GREEN SU3493 (North side) 3/252 No.17 (The Old House)
GV II
Farmhouse, now house. Datestones at top of cross gables IY/HY 16/70. Coursed limestone rubble; stone slate roof; limestone rubble stack. 2-unit lobby-entry plan. 2 storeys and attic; 2-window range. Door in central gabled porch, probably original, has been blocked by C20 window and wall; house now entered from block to left. Chamfered timber lintels over C20 casements except C18 three-light wood-mullioned cross window left of door. Gabled roof with 2 cross gables to front, ridge and left external gable end stacks. Staircase projection with hipped roof to centre of rear elevation. Interior: Full set of chamfered and stopped beams and joists throughout; original ribbed doors to newel stairs in rear projection and on first floor. 4-bay collar-truss roof with tusk-tenoned butt purlins. Mid C20 passage to rear of house has reset late C17 panelling. Cottages to left of house partly demolished and remodelled in mid C20; limestone rubble walling, stone slate gabled roof; timber lintels over main entry to house and C20 casements. The initials IY and HY on the front of the house probably Yates, a prosperous local yeoman family in the C17. In the C19 this was known as Duckett's Farmhouse. (V.M. Howse, Stanford-in-the-Vale: A Parish Record, 1962, Vol.2, p.27).
Listing NGR: SU3408493896
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 251082
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
Howse, VM, Stanford in the Vale A Parish Record, (1962)
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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