Old Place Yard House
OLD PLACE YARD HOUSE, OLD PLACE YARD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1369754
- Date first listed:
- 31-Jan-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Old Place Yard House
- Statutory Address:
- OLD PLACE YARD HOUSE, OLD PLACE YARD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1369754
- Date first listed:
- 31-Jan-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 20-Jan-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Old Place Yard House
- Statutory Address 1:
- OLD PLACE YARD HOUSE, OLD PLACE YARD
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:
- OLD PLACE YARD HOUSE, OLD PLACE YARD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- Cherwell (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Bicester
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 58353 22245
Details
BICESTER OLD PLACE YARD SP5822S 3/94 Old Place Yard House 31/01/52 (Formerly listed as "Old Palace Yards and dovecote in the grounds, Palace Yard) GV II
House. Probably mid/late C16 incorporating medieval elements, and early C20. Part-rendered limestone rubble with wooden lintels; Stonesfield-slate and plain-tile roofs with brick stacks. 3-unit plan with rear outshut, added bay and linked rear range. 2 storeys plus attics. Rendered 3-window front of main range has canted bay windows incorporating doors, in bays 2 and 3, and has renewed 2-light casements elsewhere. Steep-pitched roof has a gable stack to left and a clustered stack to right of centre. Added 3-window section to right is set back with a lower roof. Left gable wall is medieval with a later gable, and was probably part of the gatehouse to Bicester Priory; it returns to the outshut. Rear wall of main range includes a single-light stair window and a small 2-light leaded window, both with heavy chamfered frames and massive lintels. Rubble single-storey rear range, parallel with and linked to the main range, has a steep-pitched tiled roof and casement windows. Interior: massive internal stack has a splayed ashlar fireplace with a chamfered segmental head, and another large fireplace behind it, now altered but retaining a large chamfered bressumer. Heavy chamfered intersecting beams; remains of timber-framed partitions; butt-purlin roof with large raking struts to the trusses. The medieval wall is approximately 1.4 metres thick at the base. (D.J. Watts, A Short History of Bicester Priory, p.14).
Listing NGR: SP5835322245
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 243569
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Watts, D J, A Short History of Bicester Priory, (), 14
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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