Chestnut Close is a Grade II listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 December 1986. Country house.

Chestnut Close

WRENN ID
watchful-moulding-coral
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Oxfordshire
Country
England
Date first listed
19 December 1986
Type
Country house
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Chestnut Close is a small country house dated "H/SF/1913". It is constructed of coursed rubble with freestone quoins and dressings, topped with Cotswold stone roofs featuring coped verges and cut finials. The house has a roughly H-plan layout and is designed in the Cotswold style, characterized by mullion windows, drips, and leaded casements.

Prominent features include large grouped ashlar stacks, a central gable with a cut finial, and short sections of crenellated parapet. The building is two storeys high with attics and has a symmetrical arrangement of windows, generally following a 1:3:1 bay pattern. On the first floor, there are three single-light windows above one 3-light window on the ground floor. The central section features 2-light windows and a central gable with an ashlar canted first-floor oriel and a lozenge datestone. Below this is a Tudor arch moulded doorway with a battered door and an Art Nouveau style beaten brass handle inside, along with a stone bracketed open pediment hood that supports the oriel. The house also has dated lead rainwater heads and regular first-floor flower balconies of inferior design.

The south front resembles a more traditional Cotswold manor house, featuring three gables, a central recess, and mullion windows with 2, 3, and 4-light configurations, along with angled bays on the outer gables.

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