Home Close and Attached Walls and Steps
HOME CLOSE AND ATTACHED WALLS AND STEPS, MAIN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1369577
- Date first listed:
- 20-Sept-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Home Close and Attached Walls and Steps
- Statutory Address:
- HOME CLOSE AND ATTACHED WALLS AND STEPS, MAIN STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1369577
- Date first listed:
- 20-Sept-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Home Close and Attached Walls and Steps
- Statutory Address 1:
- HOME CLOSE AND ATTACHED WALLS AND STEPS, MAIN STREET
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:
- HOME CLOSE AND ATTACHED WALLS AND STEPS, MAIN STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- Cherwell (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Sibford Ferris
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 35667 37334
Details
SIBFORD FERRIS MAIN STREET SP3436-3536 (South side) 16/146 Home Close and attached walls and steps GV II House. 1911 by M.H. Baillie-Scott for E. Ernest Boorne Esq. Squared coursed ironstone. Steeply pitched stone slate roof laid to diminishing bonds. Stone coped gables with moulded kneelers. Diagonally set brick internal stacks and stone end stacks. Long rectangular plan with flanking wings. Arts and Crafts style. Single storey plus attic. 9-window attic range. Gabled 2-storey porch has plank door. Garage door and another C20 door on right. Ground floor windows include stone mullioned and stone mullioned and transomed windows. Hood moulds and label stops. Attic floor has stone mullioned windows and 3 asymmetical gabled half-dormers. Rear has wide 4-centred arched stone doorway. To left a tall 4-light stone mullioned and transomed window to hall. To right 5- and 6-light stone mullioned windows. Hood moulds and label stops. First floor has stone mullioned or mullioned and transomed windows. Interior. Complete and unaltered with stone fireplaces, fireplace with wood surround, panelling, plank doors with wrought-iron hinges, stone flags, open well staircase in C17 style. To rear a series of walls, steps and round headed niches forming a planned layout, also designed by M.H. Baillie Scott. (Buildings of England: Oxfordshire: 1974, p766; VCH: Oxfordshire: Vol X, p229; Baillie-Scott, M.H. and Beresford, A.E., Houses and Gardens, 1933, p261 and plates 164-5)
Listing NGR: SP3567037340
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 244702
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Baillie Scott, M H, Beresford, A E, Houses and Gardens, (1933), 261
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1972), 229
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 766
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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