East House

EAST HOUSE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1369825
Date first listed:
05-May-1988
List Entry Name:
East House
Statutory Address:
EAST HOUSE
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1369825
Date first listed:
05-May-1988
List Entry Name:
East House
Statutory Address 1:
EAST HOUSE

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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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Location

Statutory Address:
EAST HOUSE

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

County:
Oxfordshire
District:
Cherwell (District Authority)
Parish:
Adderbury
National Grid Reference:
SP 48032 35632

Details

SP43NE ADDERBURY EAST END

1/24 East House II Large house. Circa 1770 for the Duke of Buccleuch's agent; probably altered and extended early/mid C19; extended and partly subdivided into old people's flats late C20. Marlstone ashlar; Stonesfield-slate and artificial stone-slate roofs with ashlar stacks. L plan with subsidiary range. 2 storeys plus attic. Regular 6-window front, with plinth, sill bands and a moulded stone cornice, breaks back slightly in the 2 bays to right and has 12-pane sashes, taller at ground floor; arched entrance, immediately to right of the break, is sheltered by a heavy stone canopy on Tuscan columns which is probably C19. Hipped roof has C19 triangular roof dormers. Left end wall has a large canted bay window below a pair of 4-pane sashes with flush limestone architraves and double-stepped keyblocks; left face of the rear wing has similar windows above a tripartite sash, and rear wall of the wing has a tripartite sash above a further bay window. A subsidiary rear wing returns from the right end of the main range. Intrior: mostly C20 but drawing room is intact with a painted plaster frieze. Single-storey C20 ranges to rear are not of special architectural interest. (VCH: Oxfordshire: Vol IX, p11)

Listing NGR: SP4803235632

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Legacy System number:
243746
Legacy System:
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Sources

Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1969), 11

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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