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Latitude: 51.8614 / 51°51'40"N
Longitude: -1.4921 / 1°29'31"W
OS Eastings: 435075
OS Northings: 218209
OS Grid: SP350182
Mapcode National: GBR 6TT.7M0
Mapcode Global: VHBZP.3G2X
Plus Code: 9C3WVG65+G5
Entry Name: Stable Block Approximately 40 Metres North East of Cornbury House
Listing Date: 27 August 1957
Last Amended: 13 June 1988
Grade: II*
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1183387
English Heritage Legacy ID: 252456
ID on this website: 101183387
Location: West Oxfordshire, OX7
County: Oxfordshire
District: West Oxfordshire
Civil Parish: Cornbury and Wychwood
Traditional County: Oxfordshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Oxfordshire
Tagged with: Stable
CORNBURY AND WYCHWOOD CORNBURY PARK
SP3518
13/16 Stable block approx. 40m NE of
27/08/57 Cornbury House
(Formerly listed as Stables at
Cornbury House)
GV II*
Stable block. 1663, by Hugh May, with some later alterations and additions.
Limestone ashlar with stone slate roofs, hipped over pavilions. One storey, with
2-storey pavilions. North-east front: plinth, frieze and stone dentil eaves
cornice. Trancated lateral stone stacks to pavilions. 3:3:3:3:3 bays, with
central break and projecting pavilions at each end; C20 small-paned metal
windows with stone cills and first-floor C20 small-paned 2-light metal casements
to pavilions. Central panelled door with radial fanlight and flanking
round-arched niches with rectangular panels beneath. Pavilions with central
first-floor square panels and central ground-floor round-arched niches with
rectangular panels beneath. Five-bay side elevations, with central first-floor
blind windows and ground-floor arched niches. Rear: 3-bay pavilions. Later
alterations to centre with 3-bay coach house and porte-cochere. The stable block
is sited on the axis of the principal approach to Cornbury House (q.v.) from the
north-east and closes off the courtyard on that side of the house. The pavilion
roofs have been altered, the coach house altered and porte-cochere added,
probably in the early C20, possibly in 1901-6.
(Buildings of England: Oxfordshire: p555; Country Life: CVIII (September 1950),
pp922-6; Oliver Hill and John Cornforth: English Country Houses, Caroline
1625-1685, pp131-6)
Listing NGR: SP3507518209
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