Lower Woods Farmhouse
LOWER WOODS FARMHOUSE, B 4027
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1369726
- Date first listed:
- 10-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Lower Woods Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- LOWER WOODS FARMHOUSE, B 4027
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1369726
- Date first listed:
- 10-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Lower Woods Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- LOWER WOODS FARMHOUSE, B 4027
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:
- LOWER WOODS FARMHOUSE, B 4027
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- Cherwell (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Noke
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 54891 12095
Details
ISLIP B4027 SP51SW (East side) 6/69 Lower Woods Farmhouse - II Farmhouse. Early C17, probably re-modelled early C18; extended mid C20. Limestone rubble with wooden lintels and some ashlar dressings; old plain-tile roofs with rubble gable stacks. 2 storeys plus attic. Front has a 3-light ovolo-moulded stone mullioned-and-transomed window to right, with renewed 2-light casements above and to the left. Irregular building lines extend up the wall on both sides of the mullioned window. The right end wall has a large chimney projection and 2 blocked openings. A lower range to left is mostly obscured by the C20 projecting wing but has a steeply-pitched roof with a gable stack. Rear of the higher section has renewed casements with some stop-chamfered lintels, including those to partly-blocked cellar windows. Rear of narrower lower range has a doorway with stop-chamfered lintel. The higher range has a C18/C19 roof and may have been reduced in height. Interior: large open fireplace with chamfered bressumer in lower range; higher range has an ovolo-moulded beam and a fine stone Tudor-arched fireplace with ovolo mouldings and recessed spandrels; noted as having a smaller similar fireplace upstairs. Formerly known as Leicester's and reputed to have been a hunting lodge. (V.C.H.: Oxfordshire, Vol.IV, p.207).
Listing NGR: SP5489112095
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 243306
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1979), 207
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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