Sudbury House
SUDBURY HOUSE, 56, LONDON STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1368525
- Date first listed:
- 10-Nov-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Sudbury House
- Statutory Address:
- SUDBURY HOUSE, 56, LONDON STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1368525
- Date first listed:
- 10-Nov-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Sudbury House
- Statutory Address 1:
- SUDBURY HOUSE, 56, LONDON 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:
- SUDBURY HOUSE, 56, LONDON 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:
- Great Faringdon
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 29335 95626
Details
GREAT FARINGDON LONDON STREET SU 2995 (south side)
3/99 No 56 (Sudbury House)
10.11.52
- II*
Earlier C18 rubble stone house on earlier core altered c.1815-20. L-plan with short rear west wing, 2-storey and attic with stone tiled roofs. Main range with 2 ashlar corniced ridge stacks and one eaves stack at west side. Roof hipped at west angle. c.1815-20 all but the eastern end was refronted and the whole range was rendered. Eastern section 2 windows with thick glazing bars to ground floor pair. Main section has 2 very large full-height curved bows with curved stone tiled roofs and triple sash windows with glazing bars. Central arched doorcase with reeded surround and fluted half-columns each side. 6-panel door with radiating bar fanlight. Stone porch in front with Tuscan columns and incised decoration to frieze, 6 columns, the centre pair projected with canted sides. Modern glazing between columns. At east end of main range is early C19 1-window range with 16-pane sash windows and stone east wall chimney. Brick east wall. West side: 2-window range, roof hipped to rear, possibly former stair gable. 1 curved head dormer. Glazing bar sash windows above, round arched windows below behind C20 verandah. Rear: rubble stone with 2 hipped dormers. Range of altered cross windows to first floor, ground floor west side masked by 2-storey c.1920 rear addition. Low 2-storey early C19 red brick range to east side, stone tiled roof, some iron-framed casements and small wood oriel. Interior: early C19 rooms created within older shell leaving fielded panelled doors, moulded cornices, chamfered beams and length of fielded panelling in upstairs room behind later wall. Full height staircase hall in centre with stair around 3 sides. Early C19 plaster mouldings. Plank doors to attic. Tie-beam and collar trusses. Records from 1703. Named from Samuel Sadbury, owner c.1740.
Listing NGR: SU2933595626
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 249437
- 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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