Bailiffs Cottage
BAILIFFS COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1390593
- Date first listed:
- 02-Sept-2003
- List Entry Name:
- Bailiffs Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- BAILIFFS COTTAGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1390593
- Date first listed:
- 02-Sept-2003
- List Entry Name:
- Bailiffs Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- BAILIFFS 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:
- BAILIFFS COTTAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- South Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Drayton St. Leonard
- National Grid Reference:
- SU5996096327
Details
DRAYTON ST LEONARD
1705/0/10001
02-SEP-03
Bailiffs Cottage
GV
II
House. Probably C16, with later additions and alterations. Timber frame, part rendered and painted, with clay tile roofs and stone and brick stacks.
PLAN: 2-bay box-frame, 1 1/2 storeys, with extension to NW: a single 1 1/2-storey C18 or C19 bay, and a later single-storey projection. A 1950s gabled staircase addition to SW front contains present entrance door, beneath modern part-glazed canopy.
EXTERIOR: Entrance front, rendered and painted, has 2 and 3-light C21 UPVC casement windows in previous openings to ground floor and 2 raking dormer windows above. Rear elevation has exposed timber frame with rectangular panels, mid-rail and diagonal braces. Panels infilled with modern brick, painted. 3 C20 ground-floor windows, 2 2-light gabled dormer windows above. Stone and brick external chimney with tiled flanks and brick stack to SE gable. Stack at original NW end now encased, and with secondary ridge stack added.
INTERIOR: Evidence of wall timber to wall-plate level. Roof has diagonal wind-bracing to purlins surviving in both bays. Upper part of roof not inspected. Massive stack at NW end of original building, fireplace opening blocked but line of lintel visible beneath plaster. SE fireplace smaller, with timber lintel and modern brick linings. NW bay has stout, chamfered beam. Partition between 2 ground-floor bays removed. Original stair removed. Plank entrance door on strap hinges, now within 1950s staircase addition.
NOTE: Group value with the adjacent listed The Old Stable and attached barn.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 490577
- 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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