Sydenham House
SYDENHAM HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1369826
- Date first listed:
- 08-Dec-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Sydenham House
- Statutory Address:
- SYDENHAM HOUSE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1369826
- Date first listed:
- 08-Dec-1955
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 05-May-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Sydenham House
- Statutory Address 1:
- SYDENHAM 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.
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:
- SYDENHAM 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 47789 35692
Details
SP4735 ADDERBURY EAST END 7/27 Sydenhan House 08/12/55 (Formerly listed as Sydenham Farmhouse)
GV II Farmhouse, now house. Probably mid C17, possibly re-modelled or extended c.1700. Coursed squared marlstone with wooden lintels; concrete plain-tile roof with stone-and-brick stacks. L plan. 2 storeys plus attics. 3-window front, with the wing projecting on the right, has two 4-light ovolo-moulded wood-mullioned windows at ground floor, 2 similar 3-light windows at first floor, and has a cross window at first floor near the junction with the wing; entrance between bays one and 2 has an old "stable" door, but a second doorway between bays 2 and 3 is blocked. Wing retains a further old cross window at first floor but has been altered below. Several windows have old leaded glazing, and the mullioned windows have stop-chamfered lintels. Steep-pitched roofs have gable parapets, the wing gable with a stack; a further stone-based stack rises in line with trio blocked entrance. Left gable has a 3-light ovolo-moulded window. 4-window rear has old 2-light casements to the right bay, a 16-pane ground-floor sash to the next bay, and a leaded 3-light casement at ground floor in the left bay; all other windows are C20 insertions. Interior: stop-chamfered beams, one with ovolo moulding; massive central stack with back-to-back open fireplces, one with a cambered ovolo-moulded bressumer, the other altered C18 with a bread oven; ogee-moulded doorframe; C17 and C18 panelled doors; dogleg stair rising to attics; butt-purlin roof. (VCH: Oxfordshire: Vol IX, p11)
Listing NGR: SP4778935692
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 243749
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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