Benson Cottage
BENSON COTTAGE, 11, BEAUCHAMP LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1369489
- Date first listed:
- 22-Feb-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Benson Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- BENSON COTTAGE, 11, BEAUCHAMP LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1369489
- Date first listed:
- 22-Feb-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Benson Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- BENSON COTTAGE, 11, BEAUCHAMP LANE
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:
- BENSON COTTAGE, 11, BEAUCHAMP LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- Oxford (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 54002 03796
Details
BEAUCHAMP LANE, 1. 5353 COWLEY SP50 SW 26/87 (west side) No 11 (Benson Cottage) II GV 2. House. 2nd ½ C17; altered. Rubblestone; C20 tile roof; rebuilt brick stacks. Central lobby entrance with unheated room to rear. 2 storeys with attic; 3 bays; C20 single-storey kitchen wing addition to rear right not of special interest. Entrance, to left of centre, has C20 part-glazed door in wide opening with deep canopy on scrolled brackets, and 2-light window above. 3-light windows to flanking bays. Windows all with timber lintels and C20 casements. Quoin-like stones to doorway and left-hand ground-floor window. A horizontal timber to right on ground floor. End stacks. Rear: various C20 windows; sky- light to roof. Right return: small attic window. Interior: in right-hand room, inglenook fireplace with chamfered timber bressummer and chamfered quoins; wooden seat inside on right and, on left, bread oven with stone voussoirs, brick lining, and flue below. Chamfered spine beams, that to lst-floor right-hand room with stepped cyma stops. Splayed window reveals; wooden mullions to outer lst-floor windows at front. Plank and 4-panel doors. Central straight-flight stair (with winders at bottom) has C19 balustrade. Original tie-beams, but other roof timbers C20. In attic, right-hand stack rises, semi-circular on plan, of stone with brick at top.
Listing NGR: SP5400203796
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 245986
- 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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