BEECH TREE HOUSE

BEECH TREE HOUSE, 50, MAIN ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1371516
Date first listed:: 22-May-1985
List Entry Name:: BEECH TREE HOUSE
Statutory Address:: BEECH TREE HOUSE, 50, MAIN ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1371516
Date first listed:: 22-May-1985
List Entry Name:: BEECH TREE HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: BEECH TREE HOUSE, 50, MAIN ROAD

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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:: BEECH TREE HOUSE, 50, MAIN ROAD

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

District:: West Northamptonshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Middleton Cheney
National Grid Reference:: SP5039741806

Details

SP5041 11/184

MIDDLETON CHENEY MAIN ROAD (North side) Lower Middleton No.50 (Beech Tree House)

II

House. C17, extended and altered C18 and C20. Coursed limestone and ironstone rubble, artificial stone slate roof, stone stacks. Through passage plan. 2 storeys, 3 bays. Doorway in second bay from right has wood lintel and plank door. Porch made up from re-used C19 wood carvings with twisted columns and thatched roof. Window to right has concrete lintel and 3-light wood casement. Semi-circular bread oven projecting to left. Windows in left bay and second bay from left, have wood lintels and 2-light wood casements. Window in third bay from left, 3-lights with transom, iron casement and wood lintel. 2-light casement windows with wood lintels on first floor. Stack to right of centre C18 and C20 extensions to rear. Interior: Stop chamfered spine beams and joists. Open fireplace and bread oven. Original winder staircase. Included as a documented example selected by R. Wood-Jones to illustrate the development of a small C17 house. (R.B. Wood-Jones, Traditional and Domestic Architecture in the Banbury Region 1963, p.88-90, plan and elevation).

Listing NGR: SP5039741806

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Legacy System number:: 234455
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Wood-Jones, R B, Traditional Domestic Architecture in the Banbury Region, (1963), 88-90

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.