Beech Tree House
BEECH TREE HOUSE, 50, MAIN ROAD
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Overview
- 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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- Reference:
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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 1:
- BEECH TREE HOUSE, 50, MAIN ROAD
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:
- 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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 234455
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Wood-Jones, R B, Traditional Domestic Architecture in the Banbury Region, (1963), 88-90
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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