Wilcote House And Attached Walls, Gateway And Outbuildings

NORTH LEIGH WILCOTE SP31NE 5/185 Wilcote House and attached 12/09/55 Walls, gateway and outbuildings (Formerly listed as Wilcote House) GV II Country house. Early C17, enlarged c.1700: mainly built in 1860s for Charles Sartoris and again in later C19. Coursed limestone rubble, with ashlar quoins and dressings; stone-coped stone slate roofs with ball finials; stone stacks finished in diagonally-set ashlar flues. Complex plan, with early part of house to rear left. Jacobean style. Mid C19 two-storey, 6-window range front. Gabled 2-storey porch has arched doorway with stone-mullioned overlight. Gabled bay to right, and one-storey crenellated bay to left. Jacobean-style stone-mullioned and transomed windows. Round stair-turret with mock timber framing to rear. Gabled 4-window range of c.1700 to left side wall, has ball finials to coping, stone mullioned and transomed cross windows set in segmental-arched architraves, and mullioned attic windows. To rear of this is mid C17 two-storey block with 2-light leaded casement set in pedimented Dutch gable: early C17 three-storey crenellated block, remodelled in C19, to right. Enclosing yard to rear left are C17 outbuildings, remodelled in C19, connected to gatearch, stone-coped wall to left side and outbuilding with gatearch and through-entry to front. Interior not inspected but noted as having mid/late C19 features. (Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, p830; Information from VCH)

Listing NGR: SP3748315670