TRAPHOUSE AT BLOXHAM GROVE FARM

TRAPHOUSE AT BLOXHAM GROVE FARM, BLOXHAM GROVE ROAD

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1391902
Date first listed:: 26-Feb-2007
List Entry Name:: TRAPHOUSE AT BLOXHAM GROVE FARM
Statutory Address:: TRAPHOUSE AT BLOXHAM GROVE FARM, BLOXHAM GROVE ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1391902
Date first listed:: 26-Feb-2007
List Entry Name:: TRAPHOUSE AT BLOXHAM GROVE FARM
Statutory Address 1:: TRAPHOUSE AT BLOXHAM GROVE FARM, BLOXHAM GROVE 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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: TRAPHOUSE AT BLOXHAM GROVE FARM, BLOXHAM GROVE ROAD

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

County:: Oxfordshire
District:: Cherwell (District Authority)
Parish:: Bloxham
National Grid Reference:: SP 45752 36771

Details

BLOXHAM

531/0/10007 BLOXHAM GROVE ROAD 26-FEB-07 Traphouse at Bloxham Grove Farm

GV II Two-bay Traphouse with granary over of 1826

MATERIALS: Coursed marlstone, with corrugated asbestos roof covering.

PLAN: Bloxham Grove Farmhouse and its older outbuildings stand around a small, rectangular, courtyard, with the Farmhouse forming the east range. The traphouse stands immediately outside the main west entrance into the courtyard, on its south side.

EXTERIOR: The traphouse has a tall, elliptically-arched entrance on its south side, opening to a small yard. Above the entrance is a carved datestone of 1826. The double doors are missing. A tall, narrow, door giving access into the left side of the trap house has been half blocked to form a window. The floor of the trap house is of brick, while leading north from it is an approach (only partially exposed) of set-like cobbles. The granary itself is approached by stairs on the north side of the building. It is lit by small, two-light, casements in both gables.

INTERIOR: The traphouse has wooden pegs for harnesses on both the left- and right-hand walls, while in the centre of the rear wall is a hearth (grate missing) served by a wall flue. A heavy central cross beam supports the first floor. Inside the granary most or all of the bins have been removed (full access felt inadvisable on safety grounds). It has a bolted king-post variant roof.

HISTORY: The Victoria County History suggests that Bloxham Grove is 'very possibly' on the site of the lodge conveyed in 1528 with the warren by Edward Fiennes to James Merynge on a repairing lease. About 1797 the Old (204 acres) and New (147 acres) farms here were purchased and united by George Warriner (I), this purchase coinciding with inclosure of the parish's open fields in 1794 and 1802 which created the modern agricultural landscape. His son George Warriner (II) was an improving farmer, whose activities were noted by Arthur Young when he reported on agriculture in Oxfordshire in 1809 (published in 1813; Warriner's farming journals 1806-32 are in the Warwick County Record Office, CR 1635/122-6). Symptomatic of this was Warriner's purchase of threshing and winnowing machines mentioned in an inventory of 1813 (and the former in Young's 1813 publication, p. 86) along with five ploughs. In 1826 he turned his attention to the exisiting farm complex at Bloxham Grove, rebuilding and building anew several buildings including the traphouse. The Warriners were here until the late C19 and owned the farm until 1916. Thereafter there was little investment in the courtyard buildings at Bloxham Grove Farm, thereby incidentally ensuring their preservation.

SOURCES: V.C.H. Oxfordshire 9 (1969), 58; R. Brunskill, Traditional Farm Buildings of Britain and their Conservation (1999), 90-3; A. Young, General View of the Agriculture of Oxfordshire (1813).

SUMMARY OF IMPORTANCE: The traphouse with granary above was among the farmyard buildings at Bloxham Grove built or upgraded in or about 1826 by George Warriner (II), an improving farmer whose activities were noted by Arthur Young, the celebrated writer on agriculture. Although not a rare type of building this is a good example, little altered, and with a striking tall profile that vaguley resembles a gatehouse in its form, a datestone, and local stonework.

Legacy

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Legacy System number:: 502971
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
The Victoria History of the County of Oxfordshire, (1969)
Brunskill, R W , Traditional Farm Buildings of Britain and their Conservation, (1999), 90-93
Young, A, General View of the Agriculture of Oxfordshire, (1813)

Legal

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