Hill House

HILL HOUSE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1369773
Date first listed:
26-Nov-1951
List Entry Name:
Hill House
Statutory Address:
HILL HOUSE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1369773
Date first listed:
26-Nov-1951
List Entry Name:
Hill House
Statutory Address 1:
HILL HOUSE

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

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
HILL HOUSE

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

County:
Oxfordshire
District:
Cherwell (District Authority)
Parish:
Souldern
National Grid Reference:
SP 50894 29785

Details

SOULDERN SP52NW 6/77 Hill House 26/11/51

- II

House. Late C17 with C20 alterations and addition. Limestone ashlar. Steeply pitched C20-tile roof. 3 stone ridge and end stacks with brick shafts. 3-unit with rear wing forming L-plan. 2 storeys plus attic. 6-window range. Central entrance has panelled door in wood doorcase with flat hood. Entrance is flanked by 3 sash windows with glazing bars on left and 2 similar windows to right. First floor has sash windows with glazing bars. Stone lintels. 6 roof dormers with hipped roofs. Rear. Gabled 2-storey staircase projection. Interior noted as containing a bolection moulded fireplace in ground floor now painted brown, late C18 painted deal panelling, C20 staircase with turned balusters, windows with shutters and window seats. Built by the Westcar family. (VCH). Interior not inspected. (VCH: Oxfordshire: Vol VI, p302; Blomfield, J.C.: History of the present deanery of Bicester: 1893, parts 7-8)

Listing NGR: SP5089429785

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
243670
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1959), 302
Blomfield, JC, History of the Present Deanery of Bicester Oxfordshire, (1893)
Blomfield, JC, History of the Present Deanery of Bicester Oxfordshire, (1893)

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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