Bear and Ragged Staff Inn
BEAR AND RAGGED STAFF INN, APPLETON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1368591
- Date first listed:
- 06-Aug-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Bear and Ragged Staff Inn
- Statutory Address:
- BEAR AND RAGGED STAFF INN, APPLETON ROAD
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- Date:
- 2002-06-02
- Reference:
- IOE01/05411/24
- Rights:
- © Mr Roger Cumming. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1368591
- Date first listed:
- 06-Aug-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Bear and Ragged Staff Inn
- Statutory Address 1:
- BEAR AND RAGGED STAFF INN, APPLETON 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:
- BEAR AND RAGGED STAFF INN, APPLETON 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 45910 04094
Details
CUMNOR APPLETON ROAD SP4504 (West side) 12/12 Bear and Ragged Staff Inn 06/08/52 - II* Farmhouse, now inn. Early C17, earlier origins. Coursed limestone rubble; gabled stone slate roof; right gable end stone stack, finished in 3 diagonally-set brick flues; similar stack with 2 flues to rear gabled bay; brick left end stack. U-plan. 2 storeys and attic; 3-window range with projecting outer wings flanking central bay. Central bay: decoratively-carved and moulded timber lintels over C20 door in heavy wood frame and C18 wood-mullioned 5-light window with leaded-lights above C20 three-light casement in partially-blocked opening. Right gable has chamfered timber lintels over similar C18 three- and 5-light leaded windows, and C20 five-light casement: left gable has timber lintel over C17 three-light wood-mullioned ovolo-moulded window, and similar decorative timber lintels over C17 five-light wood-mullioned and transomed ovolo-moulded window with leaded-lights and C20 five-light window: inner walls of outer wings have decorative timber lintels over blocked windows above timber lintels over blocked doors. Rear, from left to right: C17 three-light wood-mullioned ovolo-moulded window, reset late C16 three-light round-headed ovolo-moulded stone-mullioned window: central gable has C17 two-light ovolo-moulded wood-mullioned window with leaded lights, and reset late C16 three-light stone-mullioned cavetto-moulded window: end bay has two C17 four-light wood-mullioned ovolo-moulded windows with leaded-lights. Interior: central hall has stepped ovolo-moulded beam, large open fireplace with sunk spandrels to chamfered wood bressumer. Timber-framed partition with double ovolo-moulded door architrave, divides off room to right, which has similar beam, and stone-relief strapwork panel above fireplace, with chamfered wood bressumer and hollow-chamfered stone jambs. Timber-framed partition wall on left side of hall: room to left has chamfered ogee-stopped beam and 2 chamfered doorways to rear: one doorway leads to newel stairs. Newel stairs to rear of hall: straight flights at top and bottom with simple turned balusters on closed string. First floor: 2 chamfered doorframes set in timber-framed partition in room to left; large central room has cyma-moulded beams; room to right has C17 plaster cornice, 2 chamfered doorways. Grille of simple turned balusters to cupboard above plank door adjoining stairs to attic: C17 plank doors, some set in segmental-arched chamfered doorframes. Collar-truss roof. (National Monuments Record; Bodleian Library, MS Drawings gen. C.8, J.9, (for 1880 drawing)).
Listing NGR: SP4591004094
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 249686
- 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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