Denton House
DENTON HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1369197
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jul-1963
- List Entry Name:
- Denton House
- Statutory Address:
- DENTON HOUSE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1369197
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jul-1963
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 25-Oct-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Denton House
- Statutory Address 1:
- DENTON HOUSE
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:
- DENTON HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- South Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Cuddesdon and Denton
- National Grid Reference:
- SP5934602553
Details
SP 5902 CUDDESDON AND DENTON DENTON
Denton House.
9/21 (Formerly listed as Denton
18/07/63 House with garden wall and
gateway to road)
GV II*
Mansion. C16 and C17, re-modelled mid C18. Limestone rubble with ashlar
dressings; plain-tile roof with brick stacks. Double-depth plan of 5x3
bays. 3 storeys. Symmetrical mid-C18 5-window (south) front with central
segmental-arched door with moulded architrave and keyblock under a segmental
stone hood on consoles; above are narrow sashes, 8-pane to first floor with
moulded round-cornered architrave and keyblock, and 4-pane to second floor
with rectangular architrave; flanking at each floor are pairs of narrow
renewed sashes with roll-moulded surrounds and keyblocks; the wall has plinth,
moulded storey-bands and a heavy cornice below a plain parapet. To right is a
single-storey one-bay wing with an C18 sash. Additional C20 sashes have been
inserted either side of the central first-floor window. Return front to left
has remains of C17 moulded string-courses and simpler keyblock surrounds,
probably earlier. Return front to right has some C18 sashes, 2 leaded cross-
windows and 2 bell-shaped lead rainwater-heads with dolphin crests and the date
1757. Rear has C17 string-courses and remains of a C17 moulded-stone window-
surround. Concealed roof of 3 spans with a timber bell-cote. Interior:
Central cross-hall at each floor with a large oak open-well stair at the
rear with flat moulded balusters and the date lb14 on panelling and a large
moulded stone Tudor-arched fireplaces a smaller similar fireplace is in a
second-floor room immediately above. To right of the entrance hall is a room
with C18 chestnut and elm full-height fielded panelling with a dentil cornice.
At the rear but now internal are remains of a C16 stone-mullioned window with
ovolo-moulded 4-centre arched lights.
(V.C.H. Oxfordshire V. p,l06 Buildings of England, Oxfordshire, p.564)
Listing NGR: SP5934602553
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 246409
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1957), 106
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 564
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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