College Farm House is a Grade II listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. House, showroom. 2 related planning applications.
College Farm House
- WRENN ID
- guardian-latch-ebony
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Oxfordshire
- Country
- England
- Type
- House, showroom
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
College Farm House, dating to around 1700, incorporates an older building and reuses antique fragments. It is constructed of coursed limestone rubble with stone slate roofs, the chimneys featuring square ashlar shafts linked by cornice tops. The house follows a U-plan and extends over two storeys and an attic.
The main north-facing range has three bays with irregular 19th-century 2- and 3-light wooden casements with wooden lintels. The right-hand bay has single, flanking lights on the ground floor, with the right one blocked and the left retaining leaded glazing within an old wooden frame. Above, a 17th/early 18th-century stone mullion window exhibits ovolo mouldings, leaded glazing, and a Tudor hoodmould. A similar, blocked 3-light window appears in the right return. Two dormers with hipped roofs each contain paired leaded casements. A 19th-century flush-panelled, top-lit door is situated to the right of the centre, with a blocked doorway and casement to the left.
The left end of the north wing and the rear of the left bay feature 17th-century 4-light windows, likely reused. These have hollow-chamfered stone mullions and Tudor hoodmoulds on the ground floor, and ovolo-moulded wooden mullions and lintels on the first floor. A hipped stair at the rear of the main stack retains an original 2-light window in the attic, although other rear windows have been altered.
The west wing displays a 17th-century 3-light leaded window with ovolo-moulded wooden mullions and lintel to the first floor on its east side; however, most other openings have been altered. The south bay previously contained a loft above a cart entry.
The east wing, attached to the rest of the house only at the north-west corner, consists of two bays and retains some original leaded windows with ovolo-moulded wooden mullions and lintels. Some windows have been renewed in a matching style. A 20th-century showroom window and door are present on the east side.
Inside, the ceilings have stop-chamfered main beams. There are large, slightly altered fireplaces, one with chamfered stone jambs. A winder stair leads from the first floor to the attic. Traces of an old fire hearth have been found in the north-west bay.
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