Wendlebury House and Wendlebury Lodge
WENDLEBURY HOUSE, CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1369719
- Date first listed:
- 26-Nov-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Wendlebury House and Wendlebury Lodge
- Statutory Address:
- WENDLEBURY HOUSE, CHURCH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1369719
- Date first listed:
- 26-Nov-1951
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 10-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Wendlebury House and Wendlebury Lodge
- Statutory Address 1:
- WENDLEBURY HOUSE, CHURCH LANE
- Statutory Address 2:
- WENDLEBURY LODGE, CHURCH 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:
- WENDLEBURY HOUSE, CHURCH LANE
- Statutory Address:
- WENDLEBURY LODGE, CHURCH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- Cherwell (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Wendlebury
- National Grid Reference:
- SP5603319698
Details
SP51NE
3/136
26/11/51
WENDLEBURY
CHURCH LANE
(North side)
Wendlebury House and Wendlebury Lodge
(Formerly listed as Wendlebury House)
II
Manor house, now 2 houses. Early and mid C18, probably with an earlier core.
Limestone ashlar, squared coursed rubble and random rubble; plain-tile roof with
rebuilt stacks. Single range with rear additions. 2 storeys plus attic.
Symmetrical 5-window ashlar section, to left of front, breaks forward slightly
under a parapet and cornice, and has rusticated quoins, storeyband and moulded
architraves; panelled door with ornamental overlight is sheltered by a stone
canopy on Tuscan columns with corresponding pilasters; all windows have 12-pane
sashes. 6-window range to right in squared rubble has an earlier front with a
dentil cornice and storeyband; sashes have wooden lintels including one blind
window; a large window at ground floor is an early C20 alteration. Continuous
steep-pitched roof over both sections has hipped roof dormer. Rubble rear wall
is largely obscured by additions but retains, to rear of ashlar section, some
leaded casements, and to rear of rubble section some large lunettes. Interior:
mid C18 dog-leg stair with turned balusters and ramped handrails; late C18
Adam-style fireplace.
(V.C.H.: Oxfordshire, Vol.Vl, p.339; Buildings of England: 0xfordshire, p.832).
Listing NGR: SP5603319698
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 243377
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1959), 339
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 832
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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