Description

SP4735 ADDERBURY EAST END 7/27 Sydenhan House 08/12/55 (Formerly listed as Sydenham Farmhouse)

GV II Farmhouse, now house. Probably mid C17, possibly re-modelled or extended c.1700. Coursed squared marlstone with wooden lintels; concrete plain-tile roof with stone-and-brick stacks. L plan. 2 storeys plus attics. 3-window front, with the wing projecting on the right, has two 4-light ovolo-moulded wood-mullioned windows at ground floor, 2 similar 3-light windows at first floor, and has a cross window at first floor near the junction with the wing; entrance between bays one and 2 has an old "stable" door, but a second doorway between bays 2 and 3 is blocked. Wing retains a further old cross window at first floor but has been altered below. Several windows have old leaded glazing, and the mullioned windows have stop-chamfered lintels. Steep-pitched roofs have gable parapets, the wing gable with a stack; a further stone-based stack rises in line with trio blocked entrance. Left gable has a 3-light ovolo-moulded window. 4-window rear has old 2-light casements to the right bay, a 16-pane ground-floor sash to the next bay, and a leaded 3-light casement at ground floor in the left bay; all other windows are C20 insertions. Interior: stop-chamfered beams, one with ovolo moulding; massive central stack with back-to-back open fireplces, one with a cambered ovolo-moulded bressumer, the other altered C18 with a bread oven; ogee-moulded doorframe; C17 and C18 panelled doors; dogleg stair rising to attics; butt-purlin roof. (VCH: Oxfordshire: Vol IX, p11)

Listing NGR: SP4778935692

External Links

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Recommended Books

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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)