Model Farm, Covered Yards and Flanking Buildings Approximately 40 Metres South of Farmhouse
MODEL FARM, COVERED YARDS AND FLANKING BUILDINGS APPROXIMATELY 40 METRES SOUTH OF FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1368850
- Date first listed:
- 03-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Model Farm, Covered Yards and Flanking Buildings Approximately 40 Metres South of Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- MODEL FARM, COVERED YARDS AND FLANKING BUILDINGS APPROXIMATELY 40 METRES SOUTH OF FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1368850
- Date first listed:
- 03-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Model Farm, Covered Yards and Flanking Buildings Approximately 40 Metres South of Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- MODEL FARM, COVERED YARDS AND FLANKING BUILDINGS APPROXIMATELY 40 METRES SOUTH OF FARMHOUSE
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:
- MODEL FARM, COVERED YARDS AND FLANKING BUILDINGS APPROXIMATELY 40 METRES SOUTH OF FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- South Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Shirburn
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 69568 97104
Details
SHIRBURN SU69NE 4/143 Model Farm, covered yards and flanking buildings approx. 40m. S of farmhouse
GV II
Covered yards, stables and feeding boxes. Datestone 1856, by William Wilkinson for the Earl of Macclesfield. Flemish bond brick; gabled corrugated iron roof flanked by gabled Welsh slate roofs. Central covered yards flanked by 2 looseboxes and stables with harness room on left, and 2 roothouses opening to feeding stalls, boxes and piggery on right. One storey; triple-gabled front. Gauged brick round-arch with moulded imposts to high central entry. Gauged brick flat-arch over mid C19 sliding door to roothouse in right bay; similar arches over one and 2-light casements in outer bays. Similar mid C19 tall rear entrance and sliding doors to stables and pig house in left range. Interior: central 12-bay covered yard has mid C19 water pump and cast-iron roof trusses. Left range has harness room with pegs flanked by stables for 7 working horses each. An observer remarked in 1856 the the "covered yards ...... afford dry and healthy accommodation for cattle, and also receptacles for the manure which is thrown into them for the stables, piggeries, and feeding stalls adjoining. The manure is allowed to accumulate in then without exposure to the sun and rain until it is required to be carted on the land." This is an early example of such a building and forms part of the original Home Farm by Wilkinson, who designed similar complexes at Longeat, Wiltshire, and Kirtlington, north of Oxford. It was highly praised by contemporaries. (Illustrated London News, December 12, 1857, pp. 584-5).
Listing NGR: SU6956897104
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 248989
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Illustrated London News in 12 December, (1857)
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 34 Oxfordshire
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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