Cowhouse Approximately 410 Metres South Of Rousham Park is a Grade II* listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1957. A C18 Cowhouse.
Cowhouse Approximately 410 Metres South Of Rousham Park
- WRENN ID
- tenth-mortar-flax
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- West Oxfordshire
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 August 1957
- Type
- Cowhouse
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
ROUSHAM ROUSHAM PARK SP42SE 4/213 Cowhouse approx. 410m S of 27/08/57 Rousham House (Formerly listed as Stable in Park to south of house) GV II* Cowhouse. Built c.1733-40 by William Kent. Coursed limestone rubble with ashlar dressings; gabled stone slate roof with ashlar dressings; gabled stone slate roof with concrete tiles to rear; stone coping with onion finials to left. 2-unit plan. One-storey. Semi-circular archway to centre of front. Round window above similar archway in left gable. Timber lintel over doorway with brick quoins to rear. Gabled projection to right gable: segmental-arched entry and stone-coped gable with ball finial. Significant as an early example of the "ferme ornee". (Rousham Park is included in the H.B.M.C. Register of Parks and Gardens at Grade I; Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, p748)
Listing NGR: SP4786823802
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