Description

MOLLINGTON MAIN STREET
SP4447 (South side)
13/142 The Garden House and attached
08/12/55 walls and gatepier to S, E and
W
(Formerly listed as Post
Office)

GV II

House. Mid/late C17 extended C19. Squared coursed lias with stone slate roof.
Originally 2-unit plan, at right angles to road. 2 storeys with attic. Main
front of 2 bays, one-window range with leaded casement to ground floor and
3-light stone mullion windows to first floor. Ashlar gable parapets and
kneelers. One-unit, single-storey extension, is probably C19 and has C20 door.
Rear elevation has a 3-light stone mullion windows, with transom, to ground and
first floor left, and C20 roof dormer to attic. Lateral stack, to right of rear
elevation, is partially rebuilt in brick. Gable, to right of main front has
2-light stone mullion window to attic. Walls attached to south, east and west
are probably of late C17 origin, restored C19. 2-stage buttresses. Section of
wall attached to east has truncated, gatepier with ball finial and encloses part
of garden with walls at Manor Farmhouse and attached walls and gatepiers to east
and west (q.v.). Interior not inspected but noted as having C17 panelling, hall
fireplace with chamfered stone surround, parlour fireplace with 4-centred
arch-head and moulded stone surround and first floor fireplace with bolection
moulded wood surround.
(VCH: Oxfordshire: Vol l0, p197-206; Wood-Jones R.B.: Traditional Domestic
Architecture in the Banbury Region: p139-141)

Listing NGR: SP4421947391

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26521917

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Recommended Books

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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6