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« Eynsham has around 92 buildings of special architectural or historic interest - new map HERE ; more history here. This selection of Grade II structures is ordered AZ by STREET: Abbey Street; Acre End Street; High Street; Mill Street; Newland Street; Oxford Road; Queen Street; The Square; Tanners Lane. Eynsham Hall and Station Road are covered here.
Grade II buildings are “key elements in the historic character of the settlements and landscape”. They “range from grand houses to simple cottages, farm buildings to ... telephone boxes”. The 'listing' process is the responsibility of English Heritage. A copy of West Oxfordshire's list is available for inspection in the District Council Planning Department: click here for a link.
See also CHURCHES - St Leonard's (Grade II*) ; STREETWISE
ABBEY STREET West side
Bee Cottage, The Mill House, The Cottage, Vine Cottage
4 cottages. Early/late C18. Coursed limestone rubble; gabled stone slate roofs; stone left end stack and brick ridge stacks.
No.8 (to left): 2-unit plan. 2 storeys; 2- window range. Concrete lintels over C20 windows; timber lintel over C20 door with C20 timber porch.
No.6: 3- unit plan. Taller 2- storey, 2-window range. C20 door and rendered porch. Concrete lintels over C20 windows and inserted garage doors (to left); timber lintels over C20 first- floor windows. REAR widened in early C19.
No.4: 2- storey, one-bay range. C20 porch and door, to right; concrete lintels over C20 two-light casements; timber lintel over C20 two- light casement above. REAR has C18 service wing of similar materials.
Bee Cottage: one storey and attic; 2-window range. Timber lintels over C20 door and casements; C20 half-dormer casements.
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ACRE END STREET North side
Nos 66 Janty's Stores and 68
House, now 2 dwellings and shop. Mid C18. Coursed limestone rubble; gabled stone slate roof; brick end stacks. Central- staircase plan. 2 storeys and attic; 3- window range. Segmental header- brick arch over C20 door with flat hood; inserted C20 shop window and door to right. Timber lintels over C20 three- light casement and 2- light casement over central door. Rear C18 outshut adjoins mid C18 rear left wing of limestone rubble with gabled stone slate roof and brick end stack.
Interior: chamfered beam to left. Boxed beams to right and on first floor.
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HIGH STREET North side
Llandaff
House. Circa early C18 with C19 additions at rear and Victorian alterations. Coursed limestone. Stone tile roof with stone-coped gable ends. Brick gable-end stacks.
PLAN: Main range with two principal rooms and central entrance. Circa C19 outshut and wing at rear.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attic. Symmetrical 2:1:2 window south front. First floor 12-pane sashes in moulded stone architraves and oculus at centre in plain stone frame with leaded panes. Ground floor two C19 stone canted bay windows with battlements and 4- pane sashes and central doorway with stone pilasters and entablature, panelled and glazed door with small overlight. On right of ground floor a small quatrefoil light in stone frame, like a fire window. Two C19 gabled dormers with shaped bargeboards and 4- pane sashes. Rear, north, lower gable- ended wing on
left and 1- storey and attic outshut on right.
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MILL STREET East side
No 12 Myrtle House and attached outbuilding
House. c.1730. Rendered over limestone rubble; hipped C20 tile roof; brick right end and rear lateral stacks. 2- unit plan. Early Georgian style. 3 storeys; 3- window range. C18 six- panelled door with overlight to right: set in plain raised architraves with carved brackets supporting dentilled pediment. 6-pane sashes; cornices over eared architraves with bracketed sills; similar shouldered architraves above are eared at base. Moulded wood cornice. C18 rear wing of similar materials.
INTERIOR: straight- flight stairs with turned balusters. Subsidiary features: outbuilding to right: colour- washed limestone rubble with gabled C20 tile roof; of 2 storeys with timber lintels over late C18 six- pane sash and plank doors to double-entry on right.
Buildings of England: Oxfordshire. p.602
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MILL STREET West side
Nos 13 & 15 the Vicarage and attached outbuilding, wall, railings and gateway
Vicarage. C.1704, enlarged to rear and remodelled c.1810. Squared and coursed limestone; hipped stone slate roof. C20 tiles to rear range; brick rear lateral and ridge stacks.
PLAN: Central- staircase plan enlarged to double- depth plan in early C19.
Two storeys and basement; 5-window range. 2:1:2 fenestration with pedimented central porch breaking forward; early C19 stone steps with iron balustrades leading to 6- panelled door wit cast-iron brackets to flat hood. Keyed flat stone arches ove C18 two- light leaded basement windows, and early C19 six- pane sashes; moulded wood cornice. Early C19 rear range has similar arches over 6-pane sashes, and bracketed flat hood over basement door.
INTERIOR not inspected but likely to be of interest; has early C18 staircase.
Early C19 coach house and offices to right, altered for C20
garages. Early C19 screen to left, with short wall, railings and reset early C16 ogee- headed doorway with the arms of Abbot Miles Selby, Bishop of Llandaff, 1500- 16.
Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, p.601; Bodleian Library, M.S. Top, Oxon, x514, Jol.27
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No.1
Stables and outbuilding to no.3, now shop. C18. Colour-washed limestone, squared and coursed; gabled stone slate roof. 2 storeys; 3- window range. Timber lintels over C20 door flanked by C20 shop window (to left) and C20 three- light casement; horizontal sliding sash, C19 casement and plank loft door above; timber lintel over 3- light wood- mullioned and shuttered window to right. Rear wall has blocked loft and stable doors and horizontal sliding sash.
INTERIOR not inspected. Included for group value.
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NEWLAND STREET South side
No.34 Gables Cottage,
House and malthouse, now house, restaurant and craft workshops. C.1820 by James Pimm for James Swan. Coursed limestone rubble with ashlar quoins and dressings; low chamfered roof of tar and paper, felted over; brick ridge stack. L- plan with rear right wing. No.34 to right of 2- storey, 5- window range. Keyed chamfered stone arch over plank door to left, and timber lintel over C20 door right of centre. chamfered stone arches over 2- light windows with glazing bars. Malthouse to front left, of 2-storey, 5-window range, has similar windows to side and gable end with plank door and blocked hoist opening. Rear has some C20 windows and door.
INTERIOR: 6-bay malthouse has cast- iron columns supporting first floor, which has low-pitched queen- post roof. The tar and paper roof was made at Eynsham Mill, which was owned by the same Swan family (of the
Gables), and was also used by J.C. Loudon at Great Tew.
Information from the VCH; J.C. Loudon, an account of the Paper Roofs used at Tew Lodge, Oxon; Bodleian Library.
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OXFORD ROAD North side
The Elms
House. Early C16; late C17 alterations, possibly entailing raising of eaves; mid C19 porch and alterations. Limestone, coursed rubble with squared stone bands. Gabled stone slate roof; stone end stacks, left one rebuilt in C20. 3- unit through- passage plan. 2 storeys and attic; 4- window range. Mid C19 porch and plank door with iron fittings in second bay from left. Blocked pointed- arched doorway and early C16 2-light hollow- chamfered round- headed stone windows to right; similar 4-light early C17 ovolo- moulded window to left. First floor has, from left, two 2-light hollow- chamfered stone- mullioned windows, late C17 stair- turret projects from left gable wall; has two C16 hollow-chamfered lights and one round-headed light.
Rear: similar early C16 two- light and one 4- light round- headed windows; chamfered arched doorway to through-
passage; similar C16 square- headed window and, on first floor, late C17 chamfered wood- mullioned windows. C18 two- window range to right of front: of similar materials, refronted mid C19.
INTERIOR: stop-chamfered and chamfered beams throughout. Late C17 ovolo- moulded stone fireplace to left; C19 staircase; first floor has chamfered stone lintel over fireplace to right and arched stone fireplace to left. 6-bay collar- truss roof with tabled through- purlins.
It is possible that the house is completely late C17, and that the early C16 features have been reset.
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QUEEN STREET West side
Cobden
Two cottages, now house. Late C17/early C18. Coursed limestone rubble; thatch roof hipped to left; brick end stacks. 4- unit plan. One storey and attic; 3- window range. Timber lintels over 2 blocked doors, and C19 two- light casements with glazing bars; mid/late C19 two- light half-dormer casements. C20 rear extension.
INTERIOR: chamfered beam and open fireplace to right. Collar- truss roof with removed collars.
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THE SQUARE
Bartholomew Room
Market hall and schoolroom, now parish hall. c.1700; restored 1970's. Coursed limestone rubble, with limestone ashlar quoins and dressings; hipped stone slate roof; stone lateral stack. 2 storeys. Round-arched doorway, with tablet of carved lion rampant above, set in gabled front. Similar blocked entries, originally to ground-floor market, set in 2- window range side walls, which have C20 cross windows on first floor... Built under terms of will of John Bartholomew (died 1700) who gave 350 pounds for education of village boys.
K6 Telephone kiosk by the Bartholomew Room
Telephone kiosk, type K6. Designed 1935 by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott. Made by various contractors. Cast iron. Square kiosk with domed roof. Unperforated crowns to top panels and margin glazing to windows and door.
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TANNERS LANE North
Highcroft House
House. Late C18, extended 1907 by Clough Williams Ellis. Squared and coursed limestone with ashlar quoins and dressings; gabled and half- hipped Welsh slate roof; brick left end and rear lateral stacks. L- plan with rear right wing. Late Georgian style, 3 storeys; 3-window range. Stone Tuscan porch: 6- panelled door with overlight. Keyed flat stone arches over 8-pane sashes, 6-pane sashes to centre and early C20 tripartite sash to left of porch. Rear service wing of similar materials has 3- light leaded casements. C20 conservatory to right. Extension to left by Clough Williams Ellis, 1907, in Wrenaissance style. 2-storey, 2- window range front and left side have leaded cross windows, round- arched doorway and moulded cornice; hipped roof surmounted by ogee- domed ball cupola.
INTERIOR : late C18 house has dog-leg staircase with stick balusters, panelled doors,
boxed beams, and reeded stone fireplace on first floor; chamfered beams in service wing. 1907 range has reset stained- glass panels and fine doorway with cherub's head set over shouldered architrave in ground-floor room.
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