Archangel House and Rear Wall

ARCHANGEL HOUSE, ABINGDON ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1368589
Date first listed:
09-Feb-1966
List Entry Name:
Archangel House and Rear Wall
Statutory Address:
ARCHANGEL HOUSE, ABINGDON ROAD
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1368589
Date first listed:
09-Feb-1966
Date of most recent amendment:
24-Jun-1987
List Entry Name:
Archangel House and Rear Wall
Statutory Address 1:
ARCHANGEL HOUSE, ABINGDON ROAD

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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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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

Location

Statutory Address:
ARCHANGEL HOUSE, ABINGDON 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:
Cumnor
National Grid Reference:
SP 46195 04174

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 30/08/2012


SP4605
13/6
09/02/66


CUMNOR
ABINGDON ROAD
(North side)
Archangel House


(Formerly listed as The Vicarage, The Vicarage Flat and rear wall)


GV
II


House, now vicarage. Early/mid C16: cross-wing to right and extended to left in
early C17: late C18/early C19 alterations and rear addition of c.1840. Coursed
limestone rubble; gabled concrete tile roof; large stone ridge stack with brick
flue; cross wing has rear end stack of stone finished in brick. 3-unit plan with
right cross wing. 2 storeys; 4-window range. Timber lintel over C20 door
adjoining cross wing. Plain stone architraves to early Cl9 eight-pane sash, two
6-pane sashes, and 6-pane sash in gabled half-dormer above and to left of door;
left bay has timber lintels over late C18 tripartite sashes; front gable of
cross wing has flat rendered arches to 8-pane sash above C19 two-light
casements. C17/early C18 extension to rear of cross wing of similar materials
and of one storey and attic; 2-window range. 2-storey brick range to rear of
c.1840. Interior: late C18 panelled doors and shutters. Chamfered beams in 2
rooms to left, of large stack and panelled room. Early C19 straight-flight
stairs in large hall left of cross wing: room above hall has partially-exposed
queen-post truss to right of a hollow-chamfered arch-braced collar-truss.
Subsidiary features: Tall C18 wall extends from rear left wall to enclose rear
garden approx. 100 x 30n.: of coursed limestone rubble, and chequer brick inner
face.


Listing NGR: SP4619504174

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
249680
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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