The Old Thatched Cottage
The Old Thatched Cottage
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1380205
- Date first listed:
- 05-Apr-2000
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Thatched Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- The Old Thatched Cottage
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1380205
- Date first listed:
- 05-Apr-2000
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Thatched Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- The Old Thatched Cottage
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:
- The Old Thatched Cottage
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- South Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Eye and Dunsden
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 72124 78760
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 16/04/2020
SU 77 NW
1209/9/10022
EYE AND DUNSDEN
The Old Thatched Cottage
II
Cottage. C16 or early C17 with later-C17 and C18 or C19 additions and alterations; further additions and alterations C20. Timber-framed with painted infill; painted brick additions; and weatherboarded side-outshut. Thatched roofs; brick stack.
One storey. Originally a single cell with half-bay smoke-bay at north-east end; chimney inserted in smoke-bay and bay added to south-west end. Subsequently, outshut built around chimney and wing added at rear. Further south-western addition C20. North-west (garden) elevation: plinth. Exposed timber-framing includes wall-posts; small-scantling midrail; intermediate posts; and wall-plate. Windows: of three lights to left of centre; two of two-lights at centre; one small light on right; and of two lights to extension. At left end: ridge stack; and cat-slide roof over outshut, which has some old weatherboard and strap-hinged door of two wide planks. Within outshut is the back of the bread-oven and house wall of flint and brick.
Rear: right-hand bay has inserted door and small two-light window. Projecting wing, of two builds, on east side has door on left and two small two-light windows, that on right with shutter stanchions and two-pane lights; exposed rafter feet. Three windows to section on left.
Interior: exposed timbers and beams. Large brick fireplace with timber bressumer and bread-oven. Blackened roof timbers survive over the earliest, left-hand, section, including crude rafters with scribed carpenters' marks, a queen-post roof truss, and clasped purlins. Unsooted wattle and daub survives in apex of truss between earliest section and addition.
Listing NGR: SU7212478760
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 479888
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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