West Hill Farmhouse

WEST HILL FARMHOUSE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1369724
Date first listed:
10-Apr-1987
List Entry Name:
West Hill Farmhouse
Statutory Address:
WEST HILL FARMHOUSE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1369724
Date first listed:
10-Apr-1987
List Entry Name:
West Hill Farmhouse
Statutory Address 1:
WEST HILL FARMHOUSE

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.

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
WEST HILL FARMHOUSE

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

County:
Oxfordshire
District:
Cherwell (District Authority)
Parish:
Horton-cum-Studley
National Grid Reference:
SP 58807 12784

Details

HORTON CUM STUDLEY HORTON SP51SE 7/60 West Hill Farmhouse - II Farmhouse. Probably C17, extended C18 and partly re-modelled C19. Limestone rubble and brick with some timber framing; old plain-tile roof with brick ridge stack, 2-unit lobby-entry plan extended to 3 units and to T-plan. One storey plus attic and 2 storeys. Earlier bays have a central doorway between 3-light casements, with a further doorway (now casement) to extreme right, all with segmental arches; small leaded window above the door. Roof is half-hipped to left and has two 3-light gabled dormers and a large rebuilt central stack. Walls are in C19 brick, probably replacing timber framing. Added rubble bay to right has a 3-light first-floor casement and a lower half-hipped roof. Some timber framing with brick infill remains at rear. 2-storey brick, late C18, rear wing has segmental-arched casements. Interior has a massive central stack with blocked fireplaces. "I.1647.B" on an adjacent barn (not included) may be the date of the house. (V.C.H.: Oxfordshire, Vol.V, p.58).

Listing NGR: SP5880712784

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
243297
Legacy System:
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Sources

Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1957), 58

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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