Description

SP 5302 LITTLEMORE COLLEGE LANE
(South side)
15/98 Charity Farm Cottage.

- II

Farmhouse, now house. Early-mid C17. Coursed squared limestone rubble with
dressed quoins and timber lintels; plain-tile roof with brick ridge-stack. 3-
unit lobby-entry plan. 2 storeys. 4-window front has plank door to right of
centre flanked by 3-light casements with chamfered and stopped lintels,
probably C18. Blocked door to left. At first floor 4 smaller windows, all with
2-light casements except window to extreme right which has a 3-light ovolo-
moulded frame. Rear has similar window and a blocked doorway in line with the
stack. Interior: chamfered and stopped beams throughout, and a fireplace with a
chamfered Tudor arch formed in the bressumer; 3-plank doors with heavy frames
and timber-framed partitions. Alice Smith gave the proceeds of the farm to the
poor.
(V.C.H. Oxfordshire V, p.206).

Listing NGR: SP5395102858

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26477561

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Recommended Books

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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)