The Four Horseshoes
THE FOUR HORSESHOES
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1368910
- Date first listed:
- 20-Nov-1992
- List Entry Name:
- The Four Horseshoes
- Statutory Address:
- THE FOUR HORSESHOES
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- 2001-09-03
- Reference:
- IOE01/05079/25
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1368910
- Date first listed:
- 20-Nov-1992
- List Entry Name:
- The Four Horseshoes
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE FOUR HORSESHOES
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 FOUR HORSESHOES
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- South Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Checkendon
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 66264 82883
Details
SU68SE
5/10004
CHECKENDON
The Four Horseshoes
II
Public House. Late C15/early C16 with extensions of late C17 and early
C19. 3 base crucks, painted brick. Thatched roof with dormers; tiled
roofs with dormers and tall brick chimney stacks; slated roof with
tall brick chimney stacks. L-shaped plan with cross passage on long
axis. 2 storeys with single storey extension at right angles.
Irregular frontage to road with C17 ledged boarded door with strap
hinges and hung on pintles. Some early C19 hornless sashes. Windows
to forecourt metal-framed. Interior with lower part of crucks forming
part of the bar. Extensions on long axis with chamfered and some
stopped beams and wainscotting; altered on ground floor to form one
space. Crucks exposed in 1st floor passage and rooms. Early C19
extension at right angles has partly exposed roof braces to the
interior. This building has been in use as a public house known as the
Four Horseshoes since at least the 1840's.
Listing NGR: SU6626482883
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 247218
- 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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