GATEWAY, GATES, WALL AND ATTACHED LODGE TO WROXTON COLLEGE

GATEWAY, GATES, WALL AND ATTACHED LODGE TO WROXTON COLLEGE, DARK LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1369625
Date first listed:: 20-Sep-1988
List Entry Name:: GATEWAY, GATES, WALL AND ATTACHED LODGE TO WROXTON COLLEGE
Statutory Address:: GATEWAY, GATES, WALL AND ATTACHED LODGE TO WROXTON COLLEGE, DARK LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1369625
Date first listed:: 20-Sep-1988
List Entry Name:: GATEWAY, GATES, WALL AND ATTACHED LODGE TO WROXTON COLLEGE
Statutory Address 1:: GATEWAY, GATES, WALL AND ATTACHED LODGE TO WROXTON COLLEGE, DARK LANE

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: GATEWAY, GATES, WALL AND ATTACHED LODGE TO WROXTON COLLEGE, DARK LANE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Oxfordshire
District:: Cherwell (District Authority)
Parish:: Wroxton
National Grid Reference:: SP 41434 41738

Details

WROXTON DARK LANE SP4040-4140 (South side) 1719/10/200 Gateway, gates, wall and attached lodge to Wroxton College

GV II*

Entrance to Wroxton College. Comprising 4 piers, 4 iron gates, wall and attached lodge. 1771 with C20 restoration. 4 piers of rusticated ironstone with cornices and stone caps. Ironstone ashlar wall with 2 pedestrian gateways with iron gates. Central gateway with iron gate. Lodge. C19 in C17 style. Ironstone ashlar. Stone slate roof. Stone ridge stack. Mullioned windows with hood moulds. Stone coped gables with finials. (VCH: Oxfordshire, Vol IX, p173)

Listing NGR: SP4143441738

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Legacy System number:: 244757
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1969), 173
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.