Description

SP50NE
5/68

FOREST HILL WITH SHOTOVER
MAIN STREET
(North side)
Forest Hill
Forest Hill House

GV
II

Shown on O.S. map as Vicarage.
Vicarage, now house. Early C19, with slightly-earlier service wing. Limestone
ashlar and coursed rubble; Welsh-slate roof with stone gable stacks. L-plan plus
service range. 2 storeys. Symmetrical 3-window front, with plinth, storey band
and parapet cornice, has central doorway, with flanking columns and entablature,
containing a 6-panel door and rectangular overlight with margin lights. Outer
bays have 2-storey mid-C19 rectangular bay windows, but a 12-pane sash survives
above the door. 4-window garden front, to right, has, to left, the
triangular-pedimented gable of the front range, and has 2 further bays with
12-pane sashes. Rubble service range, to left of the main front, has some C18
casements. Interior not inspected. Noted as having been finished about 1828.
(V.C.H.: Oxfordshire, Vol.V, p.132).

Listing NGR: SP5816007519

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26573797

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Recommended Books

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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)