Widford House

CLANFIELD MAIN ROAD SP2801-2901 (West side) 8/33 Widford House GV II

House. 1856 by Henry Newman, a local builder for himself; incorporates part of an earlier building; minor later additions and alterations. Rock-faced regularly coursed and dressed limestone with ashlar angle quoins to 1856 house, roughly coursed rubble to earlier part; stone slate roofs with stepped coped verges on stone carved kneelers. Eclectic Gothic style. 3 storeys and gable-lit attic with moulded eaves cornice. 2:1:2 bays with full-height gabled break to centre. Windows to ground and first floors all 6-paned sashes and fixed-light windows to second floor, except for centre bay which has Gothic-traceried sash windows; moulded segmental heads with segmental-pointed relieving arches to ground- and first-floor windows, except for centre bay which has round-headed arch. Second-floor windows all with shouldered arches except for centre window which has pointed arch with Gothic tracery. Cusped trefoil to attic of gable and 2 to each gable end. Central entrance; richly moulded pointed arch-way with hoodmould and one order of imitation Purbeck-marble nook-shafts; contemporary nail-studded plank door with fleur-de-lys pointed strap hinges. Rectangular overlight with cusped top corners and superscribed datestone "AD HN 1856" within segmental-pointed relieving arch. Integral end stacks have 3 attached shafts with moulded capping. Lower earlier range attached to left gable end, re-fronted in 1856, has segmental-headed 2-light stone mullion window to left and steep-pitched gabled porch to right, doorway now infilled and C20 casement inserted. Contemporary lean-to former coach house, extending to rear, attached to right gable end of main range. Interior. Not inspected but likely to be of interest. Roughcast additions (c.1914) to rear of main range and late C20 flat-roofed projection attached to earlier range are not of special architectural interest. Also known locally as The High House. (Buildings of England: Oxfordshire: pp546-7) [2327]

Listing NGR: SP2843101546